text scanning, ad embedding, and possible privacy invasion.

Hardly...

Samething I was thinking. A gig or 100 meg is more than enough to archive every single email from other accounts and then some.

XX - actually, depending on who in the industry is asked, 1Gb is usually 1024 Mb as it's powers of 2 (Hard disk manufacturers have historically decided to use 1000 Kb = 1 Mb, but I think that's more for marketing reasons).

Gmail site says that at present, the service offers 1Gb for each e-mail account....we'll wait and see what they actually decided to provide if/when it goes live to everyone. I know Google have many terrabytes of storage potential, but a few hundred million more Gb of storage if gmail were to prove anything like as popular as Hotmail would surely stretch any company to provide - for free(ish)!

well.. its interesting. i have 7 email addresses already.. i'm sure many of you have a lot too. my main email, my work email, an msn passport email, and some random ones you get when you buy a cup of coffee. msn is a spacific addy, used for when i'm within the MSN cirle of people, and also for dealing with some people who have very picky email filters.. sometimes only an email from my msn addie goes through (strangely).

along that logic - what's one more addy, if it's used very spacifically? what do i mean? with 1 gig of storage, i could use that address for sending mail to a press - or for emailing large attachments to myself instead of sticking them on my file server. my university email addie is censored, why not use google to send stuff to my professors? stuff that i don't care if its read by google. i can block most spam easily enough. i'd have to see what the adware policy is, however. but don't count it out yet.. we could all use a gig of storage in some form.

DesignCaddy - they _could_ choose to breach their own declared privacy policy and sell peoples details and even their information too for that matter, but I don't think that's their business model. I think they have figured that targetted ads based on the content of the e-mails you're reading will mean they will be able to sell those ads to people at a handsome enough price to cover the storage. Particularly in a future where there might actually be progress against spam, and all those direct marketing companies are floundering around looking for ways to get customers for their clients....

Hey Zekeo (Ryan), I used ESP to get your name, but my senses aren't getting anything for an email address.

Care to supply it? Can't send an invite without it...

im gonna use it i dont give a crap if googles gonna be basterds and snoop its still a gig

Well, I plan on trying it when it comes out, but I think I am with Jafo on the privacy thing. I wasn't before, but I am moving toward it.

It will be interesting to have related text banners in my emails, just to see what comes up. Read an email, get a bargain? Maybe... And yes, Gmail is going to make a killing, much like unsolicited mail (because it works).

This time, it is supposedly on the up and up and people opt-in. for 1000 MB of space and a 10 MB attachment, i would read the privacy statement over the next 2 days to see if i will keep the account or not, but its tempting to keep it.

I would have all my mail forwarded to Gmail (well most of it) and search for whatever whenever.

... but that privacy issue... don't know...



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Well, I can see the difference between a search and an email. Most people don't really care if what they search for is monitored.

My point is more like: do you use spam filters? A lot of ISPs, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, etc, all scan keywords of your emails for spam. No difference.

Been using it for weeks - it is great. The storage alone is worth it:

Gmail: You are currently using 35 MB (4%) of your 1000 MB.

Hotmail: 67% of 2MB used

And if you compare the intrusive ads:

http://www.kolumbus.fi/anders.ruohio/hotmail.png

and

http://www.kolumbus.fi/anders.ruohio/gmail.png



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I have been using it for a couple weeks now and am really impressed. Great service. And I agree with the visual demonstration from juni, the ads in Gmail are nothing, I never even really notice them, as opposed to the huge, sometimes flashing and blinking ads in Hotmail and even in Yahoo mail.

Juni, you deleted 3 emails in your visual of Gmail. What's with that? You're supposed to not have to delete.

#10 by Zekeo - 8/26/2004 11:27:50 AM

Zekeo, you have mail...