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Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's Future

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coming-out-of-beta-likely-first-step dept.

de la mettrie writes "Sergey Brin of Google has been discussing the future of GMail in a recent eWeek article. He says that the ongoing beta test will likely take about six months, and that the implementation of mail forwarding, POP access, mail encryption and even RSS feeds is being considered."

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  1. Deleting messages? by erick99 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I don't quite understand how they are going to do that - it seems like a massive undertaking. Are they going to go through a tape library and only delete messages that the user deleted or are they going to delete archived messages periodically anyway. It seems like a massive task to selectively delete messages (from possibly billions?) from a massive tape library. Anyway, I think their intent is to make sure that messages are not saved forever:

    Is it possible to delete messages, or does everything continue to reside in AllMail?

    Oh, no, no, that was just poor wording on our part. It's just that we make a variety of backups, and we can't guarantee instantaneous deletion. Stuff that's on tapes, and those are offline--we eventually delete it, but we can't guarantee an instantaneous deletion.

    The question would be whether or not somebody could feel confident that if they wanted to delete something that it would eventually be deleted.

    Yes, eventually it will be deleted.

    Happy Trails!

    Erick

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  2. Re:How did they pick beta testers? by dokebi · · Score: 4, Informative

    I have a friend with a Gmail account. He got one through an acquantance working at Google. It seems like Google employees get accounts, and they could give out "passes" to a number of people. (not sure how many, though--definately more than 2)

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  3. Why always Hotmail? by koi88 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Just because they were first?
    I mean,
    • no pop3
    • ridiculously little space
    • no imap
    • reminds you to use Internet Explorer each time you use it with Mozilla
    • belongs to MS ;-)

    My email provider offers pop3, imap, 12 mb storage (well, that's not much, if you pay, you get more), email forwarding etc. (some stuff I don't use, like sms when you get email). Of course, all for free and quite reliable for 3 years now.
    So why always Hotmail?
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