Erik Porter's Blog

it is cool..but it's pretty old too :)

What can I say? I haven't opened up an RSS Aggregator until just this last week since at least 6 months ago! :P I'm behind! ;)

i beleive this to be in a legal grey area.

from the gmail terms of use:
(http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/terms_of_use.html)

"Accordingly, you agree that you will not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, or create derivative works from the Service. You also agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automated device, or manual process to monitor or copy any content from the Service."

i am not a lawyer, but i could imagine even using outlook w/ pop would qualify as above. google's 'do no evil' credo would predict this is ok, but i've not seen a stance by google either way towards this program.

You're probably right, but it's not illegal to pass something on that someone else made! ;) As for POP w/ Outlook, I don't think there's anything wrong with that since they encourage it. ;) I'd imagine though that since this guy isn't making money off of his app, it's probably kind of hard to get in trouble over, although definitely not impossible.

i'd like to think this'd end up in a job for the author and a new feature for us, of course. i was exaggerating with outlook.

all i'm saying it could resolve 180 degrees one way or the other yet. i think the days of limited intlcl-prop liabilities on production without profit are over, unless things change.

we as users are still blissfully safe yet.