Yes there is little privacy once anything goes to the Internet (be it e-mail [was an Sysadmin for 22 years], Social sites [expected to be non private], webpage etc).

Google Mail privacy?!?

A ReadWriteWeb piece up on the NY Times site explores the recent glitch during the move of a number of colleges onto Google's email service that allowed a number of students to see each others' inboxes for a period of more than three days. Google would not give exact numbers, but the article concludes that about 10 schools were affected.

http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/09/18/18readwriteweb-whoops-students-going-google-get-to-read-ea-12995.html

I have exported an addressbook using tab delineated version (I had to add the extension .csv myself). Googlemail will not recognise the file format to import it, although it is supposed to import .csv format.

What can I do to export my addressbook to gmail?

Ellie

try one of these ways:

- enter a few addresses into Gmail and export to csv. 
Use OpenOffice Calc (or Excel) to view the resultant file. Export Pegaus and compare the two files. May need to massage the Pegasus file to match what Google expects.

- use Dawn to convert into a format that Google has listed (non csv) 

The first method is what I had to use to make the import of addresses into Fastmail and GMX, do not trust Google for privacy.

Thanks for the reply.

I managed to make it work myself, by opening the created file in Excel and then saving it over itself without any changes. It imported with no problems. However the person who asked for the help (it wasn't for me actually) could not get it to work.

In the end he is going to print it from a text file.

Do not trust Gmail for privacy, but then nothing is private, I am afraid.

Ellie

[quote user="Ellie Kennard"]

I have exported an addressbook using tab delineated version (I had to add the extension .csv myself). Googlemail will not recognise the file format to import it, although it is supposed to import .csv format.

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csv = comma separated values

When you opened the Tab separated list in Excel (which it also recognises) then saved it as csv it converted the TAB's to Comma's

Hmmm, Gmail..... "All your data are belong to us" [:)]