Gmail (off topic, flame if you must)

[Alex Kowalski]

Gmail is wonderful.  I use it all the time, along with Comcast and Hotmail, and Gmail is just better.   It's got the world's best UI javascript and gives you a gigabyte of free storage, which I have happily used as an excuse to toss my crappy USB dongles and never carry them again.  Brett doesn't like it, but he likes simplicity; it's no big deal.  

Gmail is not a curse, its a trial.  If anyone wants an account to give it a try, email me, because I have six of them to give away.  I have never been unable to access my Gmail account, from anywhere.  Never.  I can't say that about any other webmail I've used, and that includes almost all of them.  Fie on you, Brett.

IMHO it's the best, most reliable, most feature-packed web-based email system in existence, and the code, even in this development stage, is very, very good.

My Gmail address:

hypereutectic1 at gmail.com

Cheers,
Alex

Got Gmail?

>>>Subject: Re: gmail up for grabs
>>>To: SJ <syljay at optonline.net>, quattro at audifans.com
>>>Message-ID: <a05200f04bdfb5d055321@[192.168.1.2]>
>>>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"

>>>At 11:30 AM -0500 12/31/04, SJ wrote:
>  > From: Brendan Walsh <audicted42 at gmail.com>
>>  Subject: gmail up for grabs
>>
>>  5 accts, first come first serve. Email Off list please.
>
>WTF is a gmail account, and why would we want one?

www.gmail.com

>Hey, I just created 5 Yahoo email accounts . .and will give them away for
>ONLY $5 each !    New Years Special !   WowZeeeee . .what a deal!!!!

He's offering them for free.  Gmail is still in somewhat limited 
"public beta", which means that to get an account, you have to be 
referred by an existing user- and they only have so many referrals 
available to them.  You can't just load up the Gmail homepage and 
sign up.

Gmail is turning out to be a serious curse.  The quick-reply message 
encourages supreme laziness, quoting the entire message in the user's 
reply.  Gmail also now includes a mostly useless header called 
"DomainKey-Signature" which is several lines long, serving no purpose 
than to waste bandwidth.

Brett
-- 
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
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