On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 08:25:17PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote: > > Just wanted to put in another shameless plug for Gmail. Two or maybe > > three more reasons I love it: > > > > 1) Nearly unlimited storage at 6.5GB of 'free as in free' space, which > > is always getting larger. Although I've been using it for three years, > > I am currently only using 6% of my available space after all that > > time. So, yes nearly unlimited. > > > > 2) I don't have to rely on one computer to view the lists messages > > because it is web based. So, I use it at work (not to often though :-} > > ) then at home or wherever I have internet access. > > > > 3) Also, just to repeat myself. Gmail automatically "threads" emails > > by subject, so it is very nice to read as they say it's like having a > > conversation with people. > > Well, that's a feature of every decent mail reader (and has been so > for a dozen years...)
True. But Gmail collects them in "conversations" so rather that having to click on each message within a thread and then scroll through the message to view it, all I have to do is scroll down the page and follow along with the conversation just like looking at a web page or something. (To have to move the mouse around and click on each message and then scroll through the message is tiresome for me, call me lazy :-} ), > > For 1) and 2) I rather rely on my laptop than relying on someone keeping > _my_ data. It might be a bit different when only used for public mailing > lists, but then I rather have all of my correspondence in one place, > public or not. > > Andre' > If all I ever used was one single laptop I would definitely agree, but I use probably four different computers in any given week. I'm not too worried about Google going anywhere in the near future, but if something were to happen it would be easy enough to POP3 all my messages for backup (which may not be a bad idea anyway now that you made me think of it ;-) ). There may be riot or something if Gmail vanished. Cheers, /Bob
