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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. thirteen thirty-seven. by knowles420 · · Score: 1, Troll

    one gig of storage? wow. in theory, i could use that space to store a fair amount of warez, tunes, and flicks, and spread them around with relative impunity. for that matter... who's gonna stop me?

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  2. Faster? by Entropy248 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Quoteth TFuckingA:
    Finding those messages is far easier and faster than with any other e-mail program or service we've ever experienced.
    Well, no shit. You've got exclusive use of a system probably designed for 50 million users. If it's not fast...

    More of TFUCKINGA:
    Gmail's approach is to use labels,
    Holy shit! They've invented meta-data. Expect this to be like the way Microsoft's meta-world should be in Longhorn. Now to manage your inbox you have to type the same word (or letter with AutoFill) 100 times to organize shit. I don't care if they're really not, but make labels invisibly similar to folders somehow!! For the love of gods...

    Even MORE of theFUCKINGArticle:
    The first night we started using Gmail, late April 9, we saw the text ads, which were nearly identical to the text ads you're used to seeing in on the right side of the screen after a Web search at Google.com. As of this morning, we noticed no text ads at all.
    Buggy already??

    TfuckingA:
    nd the ability to change the "reply-to address" that appears in mail you send, are missing from Gmail.
    Well, yeah. That'd be a spammers DREAM.
    tFUCKINGa:
    Users of Yahoo!'s (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) much better
    A glowing review followed by Yahoo! is better. Holy shit batman, make up your fucking mind.
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