[kghose]

Here's a thought. If you think google is evil because of surveillance should you not only refuse to use gmail (and other google products) but also refuse to send email to gmail addresses, because you don't want to support them?

[schoen]

This is a pretty real, concrete concern.

http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-bec...

(By the way, you can have this concern without thinking that Google is "evil": for example, you might think that it's risky to have so much e-mail in one centralized place and want Internet services to be redecentralized.)