err... the point here was to bitch-smack the RIAA. Leaving it with one employee less, while a noble and useful endeavor, would make some people feel sorry for them. I therefore suggest continuing the boycott-riaa.com sticker campaign and the not buying their products campaign. Beating the bastards with newspapers is an amusing waste of our natural resources.
actually, I have a corporate account with [censored]. If you're talking about space, [censored] only sends me about 5-20 emails daily, averaging 20 kb for a normal e-mail and 200 for an attatchment (i.e. powerpoint presentation), so space would not be an issue as far as GMail is concerned.
Privacy issues: Google basically sends it's bot to crawl through your e-mail looking for certain words that it flags in association with your account. For example: if out of your 100 e-mail messages 35 contain the word "arcade" and 60 the word "games", Google might send you ads about coin-ops in your area. As far as sniffing corporate secrets, their admins have no access to e-mail, only the bots. Therefore, unless you're afraid of the GMail Bot EBaying off your secrets, there's not much to worry about.
As for GMail's security, there are dents in my walls from me banging my head against them after various attempts to hack me an account (or into an account) during the beta's earlier stages. I wouldn't consider myself such an asshat hacker, so I believe Google's a fairly safe place to store your e-mail.
As far as prestiege, being an amateur PC-tech with my own business in NY, I've only noticed people impressed when I gave them my GMail address, so while I wouldn't exactly expect HP to send me mail from hewlpack@gmail.com, I think it's fine for small and even some medium businesses, excluding web-design firms.
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err... the point here was to bitch-smack the RIAA. Leaving it with one employee less, while a noble and useful endeavor, would make some people feel sorry for them. I therefore suggest continuing the boycott-riaa.com sticker campaign and the not buying their products campaign. Beating the bastards with newspapers is an amusing waste of our natural resources.
people, don't feed the trolls.
actually, I have a corporate account with [censored]. If you're talking about space, [censored] only sends me about 5-20 emails daily, averaging 20 kb for a normal e-mail and 200 for an attatchment (i.e. powerpoint presentation), so space would not be an issue as far as GMail is concerned. Privacy issues: Google basically sends it's bot to crawl through your e-mail looking for certain words that it flags in association with your account. For example: if out of your 100 e-mail messages 35 contain the word "arcade" and 60 the word "games", Google might send you ads about coin-ops in your area. As far as sniffing corporate secrets, their admins have no access to e-mail, only the bots. Therefore, unless you're afraid of the GMail Bot EBaying off your secrets, there's not much to worry about. As for GMail's security, there are dents in my walls from me banging my head against them after various attempts to hack me an account (or into an account) during the beta's earlier stages. I wouldn't consider myself such an asshat hacker, so I believe Google's a fairly safe place to store your e-mail. As far as prestiege, being an amateur PC-tech with my own business in NY, I've only noticed people impressed when I gave them my GMail address, so while I wouldn't exactly expect HP to send me mail from hewlpack@gmail.com, I think it's fine for small and even some medium businesses, excluding web-design firms.
Hotmail: all your GMail are belong to us...