@frincon @sundogplanets @ravenbait Sure, I use my own domain too. Some of the external addressees for my correspondence have a gmail address. If you correspond with them then the text of your email, all the to and fro responses between you with times and dates - and those of any other people on the distribution list (maybe from other highly secure institutional servers) are owned by Google.

@frincon @sundogplanets @ravenbait The recipient may perhaps not do it. The email platform may well do it. GMail? It will do it. It will also soak up opinions of all addressees in the email chain. How we get out of this I really don't know.