Gmail Invites

[Marc M]

I agree.  But why get bogged down with a lot of local client issues
with an email acct that is dedicated to lists?  Gmail is the bomb for
lists; it automates a lot of stuff that is a hassle and/or impossible
to set up otherwise.

Marc


On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 14:41:55 -0600, David Hoffman <dhoffman2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:34:53 -0800 (PST), Joel Jaeggli
> <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, David Hoffman wrote:
> >
> > their viral marketing effort has probably run out of steam. I suspect that
> > the novelty of having 1GB of mail storage has probably worn off and the
> > early adopters who have access to reasonable mail accounts elsewhere have
> > gone back to them.
> >
> 
> I'm not so sure that has much to do with it. Sure I have e-mail
> accounts at other web-based mail providers, and while they all are
> trying to compete by allowing more and more storage space, I really
> like the way Gmail does several things.
> 
> I like how they automatically group threaded messages into
> conversations, I like the way their filters work, and how easy they
> are to set up, and I like that I don't have to pay extra to have my
> mail forwarded to another account, or to have POP access.
> 
> That being said, this is not a gmail forum, it's for Fedora, so please
> don't take my comments to mean "lets start a huge flame thread about
> mail and news readers" or "my mail/news reader is better than yours".
> The intentions of the original poster were to offer up invites for
> anyone who wanted them. That was cool, and would certainly be
> appreciated some people.
> 
> --
> 
> David
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