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Re:What Google Learned from Wave and Buzz by chc on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @04:14PM (#2711060)
Gmail also allows you to send email to people who aren't Gmail users. I don't see how it's necessarily worse when Google+ does it. It doesn't sound like it's talking about Farmville here — more like what Apple does with iMessage, where it sends an iMessage to other users of Apple's service and a text to others.

(I'm not on Google+, so I don't speak from experience. That's just how it sounds to me.)

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Re:What Google Learned from Wave and Buzz by raganwald on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @04:21PM (#2711089)
To be perfectly candid, I am not sure if I have an issue with Google+, with my friends who think I want to throw a custard pie at them, or with the author who both praises and lambastes products that send you unsolicited email. Perhaops I should have simply said, "Hmmm, that's odd..."
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Re:What Google Learned from Wave and Buzz by Symmetry on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @05:12PM (#2711365)
His criticism of Buzz didn't have anything to do with unsolicited email, but rather with the fact that Google integrated it into its gmail UI.
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Re:What Google Learned from Wave and Buzz by stanleydrew on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @05:25PM (#2711433)
Correct, although the author is a her.
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