Re: CHAT: GMail (was Re: Return.)

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:43:11PM -0400, Robert B Wilson wrote:
> i really don't see what the big deal with gmail is when aventuremail is
> so much better... 2gb of space, no ads, and the site says they will
> have ssl encrypted e-mail soon...
It's not just another free email; it's a new way of getting at your
saved email.  Instead of having to remember what folder you filed
something into, you can search your saved messages using the Google
engine - very powerful, and something I've wanted for a long time.  I
played with writing a mail user agent that stored messages in a
database, but it was too slow to be usable at the time.

I'm a mail packrat, with a copy of every message sent or received since
1999, and still only have about half a gig of mail, so the extra storage
doesn't mean as much to me.

-Mark

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