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Could someone explain what this is/what's so good about it?

Thanks,

Forest Fan

well it is a beta service and in active development

I have GMail, but for somereason, maybe my resolution or screen size or something, it fails to display HTML emails properly due to all the crap around the outside of the mail bit, and its for that reason i shall be going back to hotmail once they get their 250mb thingy running...

gamesfreak wrote:
> People fail to realise that G-Mail is funded by advertising, they sell
> your info to company's in return for a 2GB inbox.
>
> Well kind of, they have software which reads the e-mail before it
> reach's your inbox, then say if the content of the email was about
> "computers" or "Games", they'd shove some
> computer related ads into that e-mail.
Services like Hotmail.com and others are being hurt very badly, GMail adverts are not in the form of popups and are generally out of the way, this makes other providers look in a bad position especially when using popups or annoying flash ads that take over your screen before allowing you to read your email.

I have one too... it's seems pretty good. The conversation style reply-sorting thing is pretty good.

Other than that.... well, it receives your email. What else do you want?

People fail to realise that G-Mail is funded by advertising, they sell your info to company's in return for a 2GB inbox.

Well kind of, they have software which reads the e-mail before it reach's your inbox, then say if the content of the email was about "computers" or "Games", they'd shove some computer related ads into that e-mail.

I have a Gmail account, its pretty good really!

Well i like GMails layout for displaying messages, it shows a summary of the message so you can weed out spam more quickly, you know the ones with convincing subjects or from addresses that then display something you don't want to see.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> But that's all in the past ... mostly.

I remember a time when I was recieving on average about 30-50 difficult, theological questions a day. It was tough trying to answer everyone's questions.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Search google for it for the run-down.

Found it - thanks.

Everyone else: [URL]http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about.html[/URL]

Come now, Doublé F - no-one gives a shiz about your strong Christian views. It's the way you tried to ram them down everyone's throats while being totally hypocirtical and squriming away from any direct questions that could disrupt your balance.

But that's all in the past ... mostly.