GMail Invitations

On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 18:48 -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote: I had this conversation with someone the other day. Far as I can tell, all of your emails are essentailly treated as a flat-file structure (i.e. no folders / sub-folders) - so the only way to find something is by searching for it. I don't know about anyone else, but half the time I find it much easier to find things by remembering where I put them, rather than recalling enough of the content to be able to search for the item I want (and not turn up hundreds of results) Furthermore, I believe that gmail doesn't believe in you using any other systems than their own - no import / export / pop3 access etc. Spam filtering - I don't know, but I imagine you're stuck with what they give you. Then there were the privacy concerns - as google give you targetted advertising there was the concern that some process somewhere is 'reading' all your emails and acting upon their content. Whilst that one doesn't bother me that much personally (I expect google to be compentant in areas of security) I can see why it got a lot of people upset. Bottom line to me is that it's not worth it - I'd rather go with a flexible service. Actually I handle all my mail on a local server - currently with 13GB free on the mail spool drive, and I can always use grep if I want to search for something :-) (now having the option of using google's search technology in a local environment on top of a traditional mail app would be quite nice) cheers, Jules -- "We've had a lot of loonies around this place, but you're the first one who thought the sunrise was made out of stale beer. Now are you going to pick up your flute and leave, or shall I part your hair with this crowbar?"