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Yes…. but you have to be invited!

I jest — I agree, it’s just another hotmail clone. But won’t you agree that 1 gb is a bit of a jump from hotmails 2 mb?

Sorry, didn’t get to read the remainder of the entry, only the frontpage snippet.

I use Yahoo and they just kicked in some new services. I mean, I pay for my Yahoo dsl, 28 bucks a month, but I previously had a free yahoo account. I had that merged as the primary email account for the service, and this morning, when they up’d their services, I got 2 gigs of storage. Woohoo :)

Interesting. I heard today that Yahoo had made some changes. But 2GBs, how did you manage to get that much?

I’ve got Gmail!

Just received an “invitation” from Joen over at noscope (thanks Joen).

Joen is giving away invitations to anyone who wants them (at the time of writing there are 6 invitations left). All you have to do to get an account is leave a comment in this thread. So head on over to noscope now…

Indeed I am. I have 3 invitations left as of writing, but as soon as I get new invites I’ll pass them on. After all, what can /I/ use them for?

Yes, @gmail.com. I used to think having @anythingOtherThanCorporateName.com was “amatuerish” and “unprofessional”.

About 3 months ago I decided that was just silly snobby thinking, because I hate the corporate email system and I don’t want to run my own mailserver/perlscripts/mysqlrdbms/pythonscripts/pop3server/emailclient. (and mysql is nothting to be impressed with either- it’s just a bunch of text files. they didn’t add transactional capabilities until a very recent version, and then they recommend not using them because of the terrible performance!)

Are you serious? All of that for email? More free time than I have I guess.

If you use a gmail account for any small amount of time, you realize that it is more than the 2gb++ of free email storage- meaning you can keep all of your mail for all time. (we can’t do that at our company because there are too many users and not enough hard disks in the budget) It’s more than lightning-fast searching, sorting. It’s more than smartly-threaded conversations. It’s more than near-perfect spam detection, with 0 false positives on my account to date. It’s more than being able to get to all of my mail, and all of my mailbox features, quickly, easily, from any web browser anywhere. It’s more than the sum of all of those.

What is it then, that sets gmail apart? It’s the interface. It’s nearly perfect. It’s all AJAX‘ed up. It’s dynamic, and doesn’t feel like a web application at all. You click on a message to open it and, just like in [insert your traditional mail reader here], the message appears in about 1/10th of a second, without redrawing the entire page! Press backspace, you’re back to your inbox. No need for folders, because you can tag messages if you want, and searching is king. sorting is 1980. Keyboard shortcuts rule. Does hotmail have any of this?

Fanatical? Maybe. My business card (which corporate paid for) has my gmail address. All of my mail forwards there, from three accounts. My reply-to was set at my “official” address, but even that has changed. Yes, my email comes from gmail.com, and who really gives a flying flip if 1% of the people in the world will think that’s “unprofessional”? I get paid, and I use gmail exclusivly, and I think that’s technically “professional”.

Jeremy

mysql is nothting to be impressed with either

You’ve gotta be kidding me? MySQL is one of the most impressive SQL databases available. As a programmer, I get to work with a lot of databases and I would only rank Oracle and PostgreSQL above MySQL.

it’s just a bunch of text files

Yes and SAP is just a bunch of ones and zeros!

Are you serious? All of that for email? More free time than I have I guess.

I guess I have… or, maybe my email requirements differ from yours. Surprised huh?

[Gmail is] nearly perfect.

For your needs, not mine.

who really gives a flying flip if 1% of the people in the world will think that’s “unprofessional”?

If you don’t care then that’s great. Good for you.