Why is everyone so ga ga over GMail?

[cronos]

Originally posted by: Anubis
can you use gmail through outlook or thunderbird? or is it web only?

cause web only sucks balls

it's web only.

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: Anubis
can you use gmail through outlook or thunderbird? or is it web only?

cause web only sucks balls

I'm not sure if GMail supports POP3 access. From the looks of it, I think it only supports the web.

Well people are crazy over GMail because they want their unique name before it goes public. From the looks of it, people want to avoid those e-mail addresses with unnecessary hyphens, numbers, or misspellings.

I'm STILL trying to figure out a name and let me tell you, most of the good names are already taken. Oh well ...

 

[TallBill]

NFS4, why arren't you responding to my pms about the free BJ redemption card you emailed me.

 

[NoReMoRsE]

When does Gmail start?

 

[monk3y]

Originally posted by: NoReMoRsE
When does Gmail start?

It already has for me...

 

[biostud]

I've just payed for a 10Mb Hotmail account
I've had it for 6 years so I don't want to change it, but needed the xtra space and larger attachments.
And for $25 a year I think I can afford it.

 

[MAME]

because I can save lots of information online like specific files for people's computers and such

 

[NoReMoRsE]

Originally posted by: InstincT

Originally posted by: NoReMoRsE
When does Gmail start?

It already has for me...

When does it start for me? And is it free?

 

[poopaskoopa]

I need one more inbox like I need a buttplug.

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: poopaskoopa
I need one more inbox like I need a buttplug.

That badly, huh?

 

[hevnsnt]

I got invited to gmail.. So I forwareded my spam-laden email box to it (not my personal one)

So far it has done real well with the spam, and getting pretty used to the interface.. I really like the topic "thread" feature.

 

[zimu]

Originally posted by: yukichigai
All I know is that paid Yahoo! subscribers -- and I think that covers SBC Yahoo! -- now have "virtually unlimited" e-mail storage capacity on their accounts, which was apparantly done to compete with Gmail. I like that. I think I'm going to start backing up my 120 gig on my e-mail account.

thats not true. they have increased storage- i.e. to 20 MB or so.
they have unlimited PHOTO and BRIEFCASE storage, but there's a file size limit and its really not as handy as you'd think it was... (sbc yahoo customer talking here)

 

[imported_Kad]

Originally posted by: saxguy

Originally posted by: Anubis
can you use gmail through outlook or thunderbird? or is it web only?

cause web only sucks balls

it's web only.

and I suppose you can use hotmail through outlook, don't you ?

it's logical than gmail is web only, because you have to be online to get ads.

 

[imported_Kad]

that's true that having a google mail is quite hype actually

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: zimu

Originally posted by: yukichigai
All I know is that paid Yahoo! subscribers -- and I think that covers SBC Yahoo! -- now have "virtually unlimited" e-mail storage capacity on their accounts, which was apparantly done to compete with Gmail. I like that. I think I'm going to start backing up my 120 gig on my e-mail account.

thats not true. they have increased storage- i.e. to 20 MB or so.
they have unlimited PHOTO and BRIEFCASE storage, but there's a file size limit and its really not as handy as you'd think it was... (sbc yahoo customer talking here)

It must only be paid Yahoo! (non-SBC) subscribers then. Of course this info came from someone at Google (a Google employee) but I don't see why they'd overexaggerate the capacity of a rival service.

 

[Pretty Cool]

Yahoo announced recently that starting sometime this summer, free email accounts will be increased from 4-6MB to 100MB. All paid(Yahoo Plus) users will be unlimited.

Neither the free Yahoo nor GMail support pop3 natively. Fortunately, both have open-source workarounds. Yahoo has "Yahoopops". GMail has "Pop Goes the Gmail".

Like many here, I cannot comprehend the fascination with Gmail. The frenzy create gives you the impression that this service was introduced by a fruity computer company who specializes in spiking their users' kool-aid.

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: pyonir
I'm in the same boat as you NFS4. I just don't understand it.