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Forbes Reviews Google's Gmail [updated]

Posted by timothy on from the capitalist-tool dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Forbes.com has what looks to be the first hands-on review of Google's forthcoming Gmail service. Aside from the 1-gigabyte storage, the searching features sound pretty useful for what the writer calls 'email packrats' which I think fits me pretty well. But I can't say I agree with the writer's opinion that privacy fears, as discussed this Slashdot thread, about the Gmail service are 'overblown.' Still and all, I'm curious to try it myself and see what I think." Update: 04/13 00:55 GMT by T : notEA writes "A California state senator is drafting legislation to block Google from releasing Gmail. Seems kind of silly, since all anti-spam filters read your messages anyway."

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  1. Hmmm money to be made here... by Gilesx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wonder how much I could sell a gmail account loaded with mp3s for on eBay?

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    Sunday you're Thinking Different, Monday you're a huge tool, paying too much and waiting to think like everyone else.
  2. Yay! by Gilesx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can archive years of spam and show my grandkids just how easy it used to be to get

    a) Viagra
    b) Vicodin
    c) A degree
    d) A loan
    e) Laid

    --
    Sunday you're Thinking Different, Monday you're a huge tool, paying too much and waiting to think like everyone else.
  3. 1 gig of storage is too much email by jjeffries · · Score: 5, Funny
    personally, my "current" email, that which is important and timely, stays under 10MB or so just about all the time. Not so with "bobb", my boss. I have altered "bobb's" name slightly to protect his identity.

    Bobb has every email he's been sent since 1996. It might be thousands of messages, maybe hundreds of thousands by now. His Eudora mailbox has been transplanted to two different computers and that's only in the time I've been here. He hates having to reboot his machine because it takes 20 minutes for Eudora rebuild the index. And worst of all, it's mostly useless, out-of-date crap!!! Every old, unimportant thing you could imagine--network monitoring alarms from the late '90's, 'see you in five minutes' type stuff, bounces, and spam, spam, spam... maybe 1% of this stuff has enough content to bother with. The rest? A distraction if not a hinderance.

    please don't end up like bobb. prune that mailbox regularly! don't forget to wash behind your home directory, either.