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Monday, June 28. 2004
The Joy of Gmail
Gmail is a new free web based email service provided by Google. It's caused a lot of commotion because while the likes of Hotmail was offering 4Mb of email storage, Gmail was offering a mammoth 1Gb of storage - that's 250 times more storage, for free.Since the Beta trials of Gmail have started both Yahoo Mail and Hotmail have increased their storage quota's in an attempt to prevent the mass exodus to Gmail once it becomes publicly available.
However, Gmail has a very different approach to web based email. You don't need to make email folders, because there are labels instead, messages are bunched together via thread into "conversations", and at all times you have the stunning search power of Google to find any shred of info in any of your messages. They encourage you not to delete messages, and doing so takes quite some effort.
Thanks to being a member of SAGE-AU (and to all SysAdmins - Join NOW!) I was offered an invitation by another member to join. And now I have a Gmail account and I'm taking the time to see how it handles.
It handles like a VW Golf. Not quit a Porsche, nowhere close to a Ferrari, but tight and clean, efficient and swift. Something of an improvement on the Hyundai clunkiness of Yahoo Mail, and lets not talk about Hotmail at all, which has never made it past the safety inspectors.
It feels clean, and spartan at times, even with the column of adds on the right hand side. It's much less cluttered and quicker than Yahoo Mail.
Of course, there are privacy concerns, that will no doubt be discussed for a while to come, but for the moment, I'm quite happy indeed.
It handles like a VW Golf. Not quit a Porsche, nowhere close to a Ferrari, but tight and clean, efficient and swift. Something of an improvement on the Hyundai clunkiness of Yahoo Mail, and lets not talk about Hotmail at all, which has never made it past the safety inspectors.
It feels clean, and spartan at times, even with the column of adds on the right hand side. It's much less cluttered and quicker than Yahoo Mail.
Of course, there are privacy concerns, that will no doubt be discussed for a while to come, but for the moment, I'm quite happy indeed.
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Huh I beat you! I got my invite to join Gmail a few weeks before you 
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