gmail... Over Rated?

[theparrot]

well, what do you know!
I downloaded netscape 7.1 and voila! I finally saw the folder of my gmail account!!! For the first time!

I am SURE it has something to do with ZoneAlarms moronic new updates with their firewall.
It keeps getting worse.

btw, I would recommend you try mozilla 1.7 over netscape 7.1, unless there is something from netscape you really need. 1.7 of mozilla uses a much newer and faster version of the gecko rendering engine.

 

[seeker]

hey thanks. I'll download it right away.
I never was an IE fan

 

[mike031]

netscape rocks

 

[jumpbug]

I've been using it and love it. I'm switching all my addresses to gmail.

 

[seeker]

there is no pop3 retrieval yet.
The only major downside.
Once that is done, gmail is gonna be gmailin em'

 

[David G]

Especially like the Gmail speed, built-in spam filter, fast search, easy ability to send all email on the webpage to spam or trash, and the fact images do NOT display automatically as they do with Outlook, which also has no way to turn off the image rendering, but Gmail lets you turn it on if you want to do so. Who wants to be forced look at all that spam graphics and porno email all day anyway, especially having your wife and kids see it too.

In the past I never cared much for web-mail but now do since Gmail is so good. I have now switched all my emails to Gmail and no longer use Outlook.

 

[Anthony Ng]

I have now switched all my emails to Gmail and no longer use Outlook.

Yes, Gmail is ground-breaking in quite a few aspects (like speed and its search logistics), and leaves its competitors like Hotmail, Yahoo Mail or Mail.com FARRRR behind. And everybody needs a web-based e-mail account for *some* use at some point of time, but I wouldn't jump ship (from Outlook) that soon (if at all). Currently, I am copying some of my incoming e-mail there for archiving/back-up purpose, as well as testing out Gmail's capacity of handling a heavier duty. We'll see.

By the way, I just got an unsolicited $5 offer for one of my generic alias [EDIT: at Gmail]. LOL! Not a chance.

 

[bocajohnh]

interesting parrot.
my traffic is routed through the east coast of the US (I did one of those visual traces).
I also have been having trouble reaching the google site itself, but it has gotten better.

I'm on the east coast of the US and sometimes have problems with Gmail and google. I make the problems go away instantly by doing the following. Sometimes #1 or #2 are all I need.

1. Close all IE windows and start again.
2. Flush IE's cache.
3. Reset my cable modem and router.

In all instances, I've gone from thinking gmail/google is down or blocked, to getting full access immediately. Since I'm on Adelphia's cable modem service, I'm guessing the problems are caused by my router being hacked, Adelphia's caches getting corrupted, a man in the middle attack, or an actual bug in Gmail's handling of cookies or something similar.

The only time I could not get into a gmail account for an extended period, I'd get a message in a popup window "ooops, server having problems, try in a few seconds." This lasted for days. The root cause of this error was I let my google account go over 120% capacity, and that part of the service has a lot of bugs. Repeated emails from other gmail accounts got that cleared up. Unless you really want to help their testing, this is not recomended.

Regarding gmail being overrated. From the prospective of the readers of this forum, Gmail can be thought of as "so what?". And, I agree with that assessment, since anyone of us can get [email protected], by using any of the domain names we own, with 10GB or more. But, people that can do that represent less than 1% of the world's population. Four weeks ago, the rest of the Internet users couldn't even get 2 high res JPG files mailed to their yahoo account, since they were limited to 6MB. Could you imagine trying to send and receive MP3 files with a 6MB limit?

And also remember, some of these people have been living with managing a 2MB or 6MB mailbox for 5 to 10 years. There's a huge pent up demand for this type of service. Course, yahoo and the others will take the wind out of gmail's sails by increasing the disk space to 100MB, but they'll still loose eyeballs to gmail.

Whoops, sorry for the length. PM me if you want gmail invites, I'm giving them away free to anyone who read this far....

 

[socksbb]

YOu might like this app, make Gmail work with outlook

http://jaybe.org/info.htm

 

[scorpio]

Hey if u face the problems with gmail, its in the testing mode. so write it down to the people at gmail and they r sure working hard. Its the fastest and best mail i had.. AS soon as they add the pop feature , no other service would be able to match the offering they r giving ... what say guys..

 

[theparrot]

well , since they hope to make money from the adsense ads shown with your mail, why would they ever offer a pop feature?