On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 02:43:01 -0500 (EST), Lars D. Nood�n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm all for free e-mail, but feel rather thick about not getting what is > special or new about Gmail. > > I'd also like to know what Gmail is really about. i.e. how Google is > planning on benefiting from it. > > Can it support the most recent versions of pop or imap? > It support POP.
> > * Search, don't sort. > > All mail clients that I know allow searching. Many allow > searching in groups of folders or in a hierarchy of folders. > > Sorting is too useful to be left out, especialy for browsing search > results. > Sure they can. But if you are out of home and want to read your E-Mails (and normaly also the MailingList) you have to search your E-Mails which use more time than GMail do because your Mails are grouped by thread _and_ by sender or replay_to adress. More down. > > * Don't throw anything away. > > For me, spam and anything with an MS attachment are gone. Extra tools > like Procmail can automatically strip attachments, or run them through a > converter, or auto-reply to the fool who sent it, or cull messages older > than a certain date or when a certain number of messages is exceeded. > > > 1000 megabytes of free storage so you'll never need to delete > > another message. > > If you're not chucking spam or messages with attachments, then 1GB will > quickly seem small. Non-text mail attachments are significanly larger > than the final binary file because it must be encoded in base 64. > > > > > * Keep it all in context. > > This is called sorting by thread and supported by most e-mail clients. > Yes, but in the most e-mail clients is there a little problem. For example: I wirte to anyone a EMail with the subject (for example): Cinema at saturday. Then I write some days later an other EMail to another person with the same subject they will be sortet together. This will not happen by GMail. > > * No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners. > > The weasel word here is *untargeted* banners. It sounds like you'll get > banners though. The question is how do they choose the profile? Rummage > through your mail archive for key words and phrases? > > Mail clients normally don't have pop ups. Most web browsers block them. > But in most Web-Mails you have a lot of promotion. More promotion than mail. In GMail you have just on the right side GoogleAds. Full EMail with a little bit promotion. > -Lars > Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > The Internet is for Everyone: > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3271.txt?number=3271 > > Dave > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
