I've finally got a Gmail account, courtesy of my friend Gary. I guess they have finally decided to expand beyond the first beta trial.
I like some things immediately about it (beyond the 1Gigabyte of online storage and the capability to search stored emails). Namely, that it seems to have a great spam filter. Perhaps my email address there just hasn't been "harvested" or "guessed" and that will change. But for right now, I love not getting any spam at all.
Secondly, mail conversations are threaded, a la newsreader. So one can see the entire context of an email conversation without having to either include it in every message sent back and forth or searching for it throughout the Web site.
Time will tell whether it remains this useful. But I do love having an address again where I do not have to worry about the size of attachments I send or receive.
Posted by artandscience at August 30, 2004 08:50 AMThreaded conversations are good.
I hear you can get spam, but I've heard that from people who WANT spam to test the filters.
I've been using GMail constantly and I've yet to get 1 bit of spam mail (fingers crossed). It's actually an unexpected bit of joy. I remember signing up for a junk hotmail account, not getting to use it for a week and then was quite shocked to see junk mail in it before I'd even given the address out!
Posted by: Gart at September 1, 2004 01:20 AMGart?
Mebbe I should learn to finish my first cup of coffee before posting on someones site? ;)
Posted by: Gary at September 1, 2004 01:21 AMWell, thanks for the pointer Gart. :>
I'm enjoying Gmail (though it can take a while to start up under Safari).
I've got to spend some time with it and figure out what "Archiving" and "Labels" do..
Posted by: stefan at September 1, 2004 10:15 AM