Journal bethanie's Journal: What's up with Gmail? 29
So what's the big deal about Gmail? Is there something that really sets it above and apart from other free email services (like Yahoo)? Or is it just the latest must-have geek status symbol? I thought it was pretty cool that Yahoo just booted up their free memory to 100MB from 10MB (in response to Gmail, according to the NYTimes) -- I don't really use the Yahoo so much -- just for public stuff like Slashdot, and it's nice to have a Yahoo ID for signing up on some Groups that I'm on.
Anyway, I'd love to hear y'all's ideas. Once again (like when you converted me to tabbed browsing -- thanks!!), you get to educate & inspire me. And if I'm interested, there's no *telling* what I might offer to get an invite!! ;-)
Anyway, I'd love to hear y'all's ideas. Once again (like when you converted me to tabbed browsing -- thanks!!), you get to educate & inspire me. And if I'm interested, there's no *telling* what I might offer to get an invite!!
See, it's all about being one of the cool kids... (Score:2)
~SomeWoman{at}gmail{dot}com
Re:See, it's all about being one of the cool kids. (Score:2)
Why must there be so many people who want to send you all kind of strange attachments by e-mail? It wasn't meant for that, ya know?
People should just put the files on some kind of other storage that does NOT use the storage space of the reciever. Not everyone wants to download 30 Megs on their dial-up (Okay. I don't have dial-up, but still. I could use one if I'm traveling).
Re:See, it's all about being one of the cool kids. (Score:2)
And my flathead screwdriver wasn't made to pry the lid off of a paint can, but it works damn fine. What's your point? Face it: email, just like any other tool is evolving to meet changing needs.
Scenario: I have a 2 meg file that I need to get to somebody 15 miles away in the next 5 minutes. How do you suggest I do this? Assume road construction, as is generally prudent.
Re:See, it's all about being one of the cool kids. (Score:2)
Re:See, it's all about being one of the cool kids. (Score:2)
Email and attachments are great. Yes, dialup sucks, but you live with it. I don't mind waiting 30 minutes -- seeing pix of my folks every once in a while is still a treat!
Re:See, it's all about being one of the cool kids. (Score:2)
And if it's a bandwidth issue, all electronic communication is going to be slow. It's still more convenient than the USPS. 30 minutes vs. 2 days? I'll take it.
Re:See, it's all about being one of the cool kids. (Score:2)
I obviously didn't make myself clear. The problem with e-mail and attachments is that the receiver stands for the storage space. It works fine as long as the receiver has the capacity to receive the all the attachments. But as you said yourself, people regularly run out of space.
This is the exact problem with attachments. People tend to send larger attachments than the user can afford, resulting in that other messages can't make it trough.
It doesn't need to be a 1 GB movie you're sending. It just takes a
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Re:See, it's all about being one of the cool kids. (Score:1)
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Its a lot... (Score:2)
You no longer have folders. You have labels. You label your emails (for example, I have 'family', 'slashdot people', 'about java', 'about gaming', etc...). You can give an email multiple labels, too. There is also the ability to 'star' an email if its important.
But the nicest feature I've seen is how replies get threaded. Instea
Re:Its a lot... (Score:2)
As you may have seen from my orkut post about it, I really wasn't attracted to gmail, mainly because the lack of names I want (6char min, which cuts out my first *three* choices).
But then there was this girl whom I don't know arbitrarily offering gmail invites to people, and I was like, "Hey, I like girls. I'll take one. (an invite, that is)"
Not quite in those words, but that's the general idea.
Partly the cool factor... (Score:1)
For instance, I think that it
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Re:a way to get spammed with ads, ultimately (Score:2)
Re:a way to get spammed with ads, ultimately (Score:2)
I have to admit that I'm *extremely* impressed with Yahoo's filteri
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Re:a way to get spammed with ads, ultimately (Score:2)
I second that. I just set my wife up with the standalone Thunderbird [mozilla.org] client for her email accounts and its very nice. When I last tried Mozilla's integrated client the Spam-filtering was no-where near as easy to use as it is now. Plus I have her main account with Plastic.com which uses its own filters so we're hoping she stays pretty Spam free. If it goes well, then maybe we'll even let our daughter get her own email account once she knows how to read,
Re:a way to get spammed with ads, ultimately (Score:2)
Grrrrr
I use eudoramail, but it has lots of adds and I am getting annoyed at it because of that. It is basically the same as Lycos.com (same app serves up both sites and eudoramail is run by lycos).
jason
spamcop (Score:2)
time for a question (Score:1)
Re:time for a question (Score:3, Informative)
Re:time for a question (Score:2)
If you're using Microsoft's Internet Explorer, then when you want to have more than one page open at a time, you have to have multiple windows open. This can chew up the resources on your computer & make it run slower, and it's just kind of a pain.
Tabbed browsing is available in browsers called Mozilla and Firefox (and some others, but these are the two "favorite" ones, AFAIK). Both of these applications are "sleeker" and run faster than IE
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another tabbed browser (Score:1)
I got an account (Score:2)
Still need a gmail invite? IM me (Score:2)
I felt much the same way as you (Score:2)
So from my perspective of not wanting webmail, it's still utterly worthless. But from other people's perspective, I can at least understand the appeal now.
Oh, and on the spam front, I get maybe 4 or so a week in my paid-for account, which is quite good IMO. OTOH, legitimate emails still seem to occasionally vanish. Plus, the option to tweak our own filter settings that's been waved in front of us for at least a year
Really I was thinking when Gmail came out (Score:2)