Re: An ex GCHQ bod once told me never to use GMail
Odd. An ex GCHQ spook told me that if you want everyone to know within 5 minutes put it on GMail. Mind you that was a few years back so maybe things have changed.
It might have been that at the time Google didn't use SSL between their data centres as they thought they had the fibre connections all to themselves. They do now (or so they tell us).