-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 How long has hotmail been around? How about yahoo mail? I think gmail has taken a old idea, free webmail, and blown the lid off of the box. Not only in the storage space given, but in how people look at email management. Labels..... I don't think it will be long before we see other arguably more common apps like kmail start to support the ideas of labels. Who needs folders when you can google your mail archive and organize by not one directory name, but by several labels on the same message. I haven't completely bought into the label train of thought yet, but with a little more refinement I think it will change the way mail is managed on an end user level.
On Monday 14 March 2005 19:01, Mike Schieuer wrote: > So, how long does everyone think that gmail will... > > 1. exist > 2. be free or take your email hostage > 3. give out free invites > > I've been pondering this over the last few hours in an effort to revamp the > way I handle my email and mailing lists. I've been an avid user of kmail > since I can remember. However I have pretty much every email I've ever > gotten since circa 1995 (minus the spam). I've always chosen to give > everyone who is a regular in my inbox their own mbox each year. Same with > mailing lists... (I.E. SCLUG-2003, SCLUG-2004, SCLUG-2005, etc.) Needless > to say Kmail has been freaking out on me when it gets over a gig worth of > mail built up in /$HOMEDIR/Mail so I've created /$HOMEDIR/Mail-Archive > then anytime I need to go back in time on a subject I end up dragging it > back to /$HOMEDIR/Mail re-opening Kmail and searching through my > archives.... My first thought brings me to gmail... Send all my lists > there, filter them into "labels" and start running kcheckgmail in my KDE > applets to check my gmail every hour. So do I trust the folks at google > aren't going to show me where free ends and payments start? Or what day > does Microsoft buy out Google and then why the hell would I stick with > there service. So I'm throwing this out to the list. Let me know what > your thoughts are. And dumping my email into /dev/null isn't an option I'm > a digital pack rat who is set in his ways. > > > Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCNzx/d5mI1CHWpvcRAoqKAJ99amIudIkm/Md7msjMFUB8UorXAwCgqLnk kgWFgqDFTqBj80G4r3RcyRI= =oupQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
