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Google's gmail spam reduction - do you think the amount of spam that google
would eliminate would be less than the amount they would stuff into your
email each day? Considering gmail is free- you could expect a LOT of ads.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Haisley [mailto:mhaisley@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 12:23 PM
To: avr-chat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] What makes 'Gmail' so special?



Well, eventually (read: soon) it will be a free-for-all, the invite
system was for BETA purposes, since google can control the number of
invites, they can control the number of users, and increase the load
as they go.

I still have a couple of email accounts that I check via outlook, but
for the most part, I really prefer the google interface.  As far as
storage limits, of course with outlook, I wouldn't have the limits,
just my hard drive space, but speed is a major factor too, gmail can
search my mail in less than a second, outlook would be very painful at
this big of a mail storage.

The spam reduction is a whole nother thing, google has done some nifty
stuff in that front, including a general categorical filter that seems
to fine-tune it's self as your mail store grows, ie: bayesian
filtering, but it starts from a given point, instead of a blank slate.

But, the biggest feature, at least for me, is portability, seemless
portability, the client interface is just as good as outlook, and I
can use it absolutely anywhere, if i'm at a public access terminal in
a library I can pop on and have full access, if I am at a client site,
same thing, all without being tethered to a few desktops/laptops with
synchronization.

-Mike

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:28:30 -0500, Bill Velek <billvelek@alltel.net> wrote:
> Michael Haisley wrote:
>
> > Gmail is distinctive in a lot of ways, and provides a lot of features,
> > that are not present in most other clients.
> >
> > First off: Space, a whopping 1GB of space comes with each account.
> >
> > Second and probably most important is google's search functions, are
> > built into the email client, I can create labels using a google-type
> > search of my inbox, and call up all messages, for example pertaining
> > to AVRs, traditionally, with most clients you can create folders, and
> > do kinda the same thing, but the nice thing about this is, that you
> > can have multiple labels per message, Ie in the previous example, I
> > could have a message on AVR Programmers that would get the label
> > hardware, & the label AVR, this makes sorting much easier.
> >
> > Third, is the way individual messages, are handled, google groups them
> > in threads, much like a usenet type newsgroup, all replys are grouped
> > with the original message, so that you can read them together, in
> > context.
> >
> > The other big feature is archiving, with 1 GB of space, you really
> > don't need to delete email that often, if at all so I could quickly
> > search my inbox, and find a message from several months ago.
>
> snip
>
> Well, you and Dave have given great reasons to be using Gmail instead of
> Hotmail, but I'm still wondering if it is worthwhile to use Gmail
> instead of my regular ISP-email and Netscape 7 as my reader.  For
> instance, my storage space is limited only by available space on my
> harddrives, and Netscape has a tremendously flexible and versatile
> search function, and it also includes 'labels' -- however, it does not
> permit _multiple_ labels per message, although I don't know exactly how
> much of a shortcoming that really is.  Netscape can group messages into
> threads, too.
>
> Anyway, I don't understand the purpose of needing to be invited, and
> having limits on how many you can invite; that sounds more like a
> marketing scheme to me, to make it seem exclusive.  I can't see how
> restrictions like that are going to eliminate or reduce spam.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Bill Velek
>
>
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