Email spys?

I don't know if any of you use Google mail (Gmail), and some folks don't
use it for this very reason, but the program somehow scans your emails
for key words and then your sidebar ads are influenced by these
keywords. So if I get an email that has comic books used in it, I'll
have adds on the sidebar for comic books. Google insists that its all
automated and quite frankly, I don't care because I'm not posting
anything "secret."

But yesterday, on my computer at work (whose mailbox gets at least 100
spam emails a day) I sent an email using the term VIP, and minutes later
a spam email showed up using that very term. Then this morning I no
sooner read an email from a friend named Anthony, and a spam email shows
up (on my Sidekick account) from anthony (lower case on the email). Not
sure when my friend Anthony sent his email, it may have been a
conicidence, but I only get about 25 spams a day to this account.

I'm just wondering if the spammers are using something like Gmail is
using... (of course, some of my spam is random, like the one I just got,
as I don't recall talking about a "small member" anytime lately!)

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