This is the main reason I use a service like youmail.com which gives me a visual text interface to my voicemail so I can just read most of my messages and reply to them by e-mail.

At the very least this is a nice bargaining chip for Google in negotiating with the Mozilla guys -- a play stolen from the Microsoft playbook?

Does this send folks like Yahoo and MS shopping for services like http://youmail.com/ in order to be competitive?