Gmail's Birthday Presents

Jicksta writes "Since today marks the first birthday of Google's online email service, Gmail, the Gmail team is rolling out some great new features. Every user's email account storage has been doubled to an astounding 2GB and users now have the ability to use some new snazzy rich text formatting features including fonts, bullets, colors, and highlighting. Happy birthday, Gmail!"

Comments

I got 2GB

[blobzorz]

Just checked and I have 2GB, yay http://onticfusion.sytes.net/

April Fools again

[SWroclawski]

Worst April Fool's joke yet!

I hope this one is a joke.

[R.Caley]

Otherwise it's time to tag all gmail sourced email as spam.

Re:April 1st?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're kind of stupid.

Re:Schweet

[b100dian]

Do you write bold, like a 14 year school boy?

Re:Schweet

[Zeinfeld]

And your argument of using style for structured communication is bunk. What does colors and fonts have to do with your message, and how are they going to render in pine? Bullet points? What's wrong with an asterik?

Whats wrong with punch cards?

Plaintext is not as effective a means of communication as formatted text. Typography was invented in the first place to improve readability. People who use plaintext limit the effectiveness of their message.

If Pine does not render the emails in an acceptable fashion get a new mail client. The vast majority of Internet users have richtext capable clients, the only people who don't are the very people who think they are on the bleeding edge of technology.

If you never go beyond the line mode you will be locked into the computing technology of the 1980s. You may think that you are on the bleeding edge but you are actually in a technology ghetto. Line mode users are the Amish of the Internet.