Re: [tlug] gmail (was: Is Linux Helping MS to make Windows better?)

[Ian Barwick <barwick@example.com>]

On Wed, 5 May 2004 19:34:21 +0900, Graham Briggs <grbriggs@example.com> wrote:
(...)
> [off topic]
> Has anyone else had chance to try Google mail? I was fortunate enough
> to be invited into the beta as a friend of mine works for Google Japan,
> and I have to say that it's a very sophisticated on-line mail system -
> far better than Yahoo or hotmail.  I know there have been numerous
> stories about privacy issues, but it seems OK as a system.

I quite like it, although I've only been using it for a few days. It's
generally very responsive and feels more like an application than a
website. The biggest shortcoming is that it doesn't work with Opera or
Konqueror, though Mozilla is fine. And there doesn't seem to be an
option to save drafts, which I just noticed because I was going to
look whether I was still on 0% of my 1GB ;-).

Regarding privacy - I only use it for mailing lists and the like,
which tend to get publicly archived anyway.

Ian Barwick