Comments on: GMail

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 22:13:22 +0000

It's funny you should say that -- an address fading away is exactly why I wouldn't use a free email service. I got tired of playing musical email addresses a while ago, and switched to using pobox (even before I knew freeside, whose baby pobox is), and a while after that I just got my own domain name and was done with it. :-)

By: leolo

leolo — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:42:01 +0000

That's why you should use pobox.

By: crschmidt

crschmidt — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:55:27 +0000

I’d like to point out that this would be a perfect situation for the use of Trackback, were it implemented here. At least, this is what I use it for ;)

The only thing that I can see GMail being good at for me is an email address I can depend on. Right now, I’m looking at leaving school next semester – far before I planned to before – and thinking “Oh crap. The email address I’ve been using as my main one for the past two years is going away.” There are times when I don’t feel comfortable using the forwarding service I have (LJ), don’t want to use something that’s associated with the name it carries (Yahoo/Hotmail), and don’t have a “main” email address I can depend on (UIUC). Gmail to me avoids the branding that the other services have recieved (Thus far, not that it never will). That would be my only use for it – being able to have an account where things can go (Bugzilla installs, and the like) and not worry about the address fading away.

By: frobisher

frobisher — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:06:32 +0000

Nah. After a little while, I got boredom from orkut, but no knowledge.

What I find interesting (after, admittedly, only a quick scan) that a lot of the replies seem to be saying “but none of this stuff has been offered in a webmail app” (optionally pointing out that it’s free).

Um. so what? Oddly enough, I’m happy to have my own mail on my own machine, rather than storing it somewhere else. Am I nuts?

By: flipzagging

flipzagging — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 14:56:06 +0000

But mendel! The ads in your mail will be “on-topic”!!

By: brianenigma

brianenigma — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:45:09 +0000

BUT IT IS BUILT ON AN INTERNET OPERATING SYSTEM

Wait, isn’t that just nu-speak for “distributed” and “scalable?”

By: genericus

genericus — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 11:33:20 +0000

SOMEONE’S GIVING ME SOMETHING FOR NEARLY NOTHING! THE MINIESCULE CATCH IS THE GREATEST INVASION OF PRIVACY IN THE HISTORY OF EVER!!!! FOUL!!! FOUL!!!!