can I just say right now...

[acroyear]

...that I simply do NOT get the "gotta have a gmail invite to be in the cool kids club" fad right now?

Its an f'in' email system, with advertising, that won't in any way reduce the amount of spam one gets any more than any other new (or old), free (or pay) email service.

that's it.

and as i said, it's got f'in' advertising in it. ick. i don't need it. i do'nt want it.

and i don't get it.

sheesh.

Comments

[iamtim.livejournal.com]

Actually, it is pretty cool. It kinda blurs the line between "sent messages" and "received messages", and makes them more "conversation messages".

And the ads everyone's complaining about? I haven't seen them, so I don't know what they're referring to.

[mshelby.livejournal.com]

and then there's this: http://gmail-is-too-creepy.com/

sounds a little bit too paranoid to me, but they might have a point.

[kmusser]

I haven't seen anyone make a claim that it would reduce spam, not sure where you got that from.

It's advantages are 1) more space, 2) improved search capability, 3) archive capability, 4) threaded e-mail.

The ads are much less intrusive than any of the other free e-mail services I know of.

It's not really competing with paid e-mail services - if you hate ads that much, you're going to need to pay for e-mail. If you want your e-mail for free you're going to get ads - and I'd rather have ads that are 1-2 lines of text rather than images that take up half the screen.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

the spam thing was just a guess...most places offering "better" email than their competitors usually talk about their spam-filtering capabilities.

i pay for my email, as part of my entire web-hosting package for celticdistrict.com. I've had threaded email via pop3 or imap to netscape (now thunderbird) for 6 years now, minus a brief time where i had to use the web access version during my unemployment before figuring out how to get thunderbird to talk IMAP. [I tried gnome's evolution and had it promptly try to treat my entire home directory as a mail folder, which actually had me more worried about the IMAP server that let it happen].

I don't get ads in my email (except through yahoo groups). I can use whatever client I want (standards rock). I can move whole chunks of email around without having to click a bunch of little checkboxes first.

[capi.livejournal.com]

*LOL* I'm with you, except without any f'in's! *L*

[kmusser]

*nods* of course - you're paying for your e-mail - it should be better. I wouldn't expect a free service to be better than a paid service - you're not their target customer, it's all the folks using yahoo or hotmail that they're after.

[thewhitedragon.livejournal.com]

Considering that I, for the most part, use NetscapeMail and thus don't see the ads all that much and am only limited to the amount of space free on my HD, this is worthless to me as well. At work I use yahoo, which has up'ed it's space limit to 100meg which I'll fill up in, oh...20 years or so.

It's because it's new, it requires someone with an active account to "invite" you and it's a braggart's paradise ("I got a Gmail account...do you? No...oh, then you're nearly as cool as I am...")

Do I plan on getting one? hell no...I have trouble keeping track of all of my existing email accounts.