[pp.int.general] Really now?

[Patrick Godschalk]

Can someone explain to me why mails that are sent to a Pirate Party
organisation are stored with Google, scrubbed for profiling and stored
on a US server that falls under the Patriot Act?

...Really?



alderaan:~ argure$ dig pp-international.net mx

; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> pp-international.net mx
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22368
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 12

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pp-international.net.		IN	MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pp-international.net.	3600	IN	MX	20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
pp-international.net.	3600	IN	MX	20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.
pp-international.net.	3600	IN	MX	30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
pp-international.net.	3600	IN	MX	30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
pp-international.net.	3600	IN	MX	30 ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
pp-international.net.	3600	IN	MX	30 ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
pp-international.net.	3600	IN	MX	10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
pp-international.net.	3600	IN	NS	ns20.domaincontrol.COM.
pp-international.net.	3600	IN	NS	ns19.domaincontrol.COM.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.	179	IN	A	173.194.67.26
ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM.	281	IN	AAAA	2a00:1450:400c:c03::1a
ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 86	IN	A	173.194.70.27
ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 215	IN	A	173.194.69.26
ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 170	IN	AAAA	2a00:1450:4008:c01::1b
ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.	220	IN	A	173.194.70.27
ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.	2	IN	AAAA	2a00:1450:4001:c02::1a
ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.	64	IN	A	173.194.69.27
ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.	115	IN	AAAA	2a00:1450:4008:c01::1b
ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.	183	IN	A	74.125.143.26
ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.	18	IN	A	74.125.141.27
ns19.domaincontrol.COM.	46730	IN	A	216.69.185.10

;; Query time: 30 msec
;; SERVER: 62.238.255.69#53(62.238.255.69)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr 18 14:49:30 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 509