A Washington Post article reports that anyone providing email services to you is allowed to read your email:
A company that provides e-mail service has the right to copy and read any message bound for its customers, a federal appeals court panel has ruled in a decision that could expand e-mail monitoring by businesses and the government.
Look at the bright side: This might be what gets joe average to start using encryption.
Or maybe I might start…
When you are ready; my GPG key will be here.
Funny, after reading about this court decision, I thought “Hey, I should check out Augie’s site again and get serious about using GPG …”