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Thus spake "Scott Weeks" <[email protected]> > Your proprietary information is on someone else's server and it's up to > them not to 'use' it. There are IM products which a company can set up internally for exactly this reason. For public IM servers, you're not obligated to give "proprietary information" other than your email address. > PSTN doesn't keep your info on a server or backed up somewhere. I'm quite sure the telco has records of who I am and where I live, and they "use" that information on a regular basis to bill me. They also sell the information to others and a variety of other things they're allowed to do by law. Yahoo and AOL are benign by comparison. S
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