[Sussex] Google mail

[Geoffrey J Teale]

Jon Fautley wrote:
> 
> Er, I personally think this would be a bad idea. If you're not too
> careful, the legal police will come from Google and eat your children.
> 
> Remember, you can't pass another companies services off as your own
> without explicit permission - and that sound exactly like what you're
> doing when giving out gmail invites on 'behalf' of the SLUG.
> 
> I'm sure our very own Mr. and Mrs. Teale will be able to tell us more -
> or flame me for talking crap ;)

The general point about passing off someone else's service as your own 
is true - although I'm not convinced it applies here: what is being 
suggested is not fraudulent.

However, there must be some terms and conditions you agree to when you 
accept an invite to google mail.  A quick review of those should give 
you a good idea of how google feel about such things.

I imagine (without having seen the terms/conditions) that google would 
expect you to exercise a certain amount of caution with regard to whom 
you invite to use the service.  My understanding is that invites are 
designed to stop spammers, and other nefarious users gaining entry to 
the system.

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