lol..... im nice... anyone with a free invite to g-mail about! 
Gmail
it's webmail interface is second to none. and lables are fab.Lee wrote:I don't get GMail, quite a few people have offered me an account but I've said no. I have my own address, and as long as I can send, receive and read email, I don't care. What's so special about these GMail accounts?
mine is also my primary account. i shall not be inviting look
"He has to be larger than bacon"
I like it because it's so innovative - and stays that way through continuing to innovative before other operators have caught up with what they were doing before. It started off as a webmail service which gave you 1GB of capacity for free - something which is still unmatched.I don't get GMail, quite a few people have offered me an account but I've said no. I have my own address, and as long as I can send, receive and read email, I don't care. What's so special about these GMail accounts?
It's interface has continued to develop and is now pretty much the best webmail interface there is - simple yet functional and powerful, as opposed to graphics-laiden yet clunky and ineffective. And the 1GB capacity is now a thing of the past - they now provide 2.5GB (and counting) of storage capacity, even though no other operator managed to catch up with their original 1GB for free.
Aswell as that, they've developed a basic HTML-only version of their user interface, which means that Gmail can now be accessed from pretty much any browser, including mobile phones, another huge advantage over other email services.
Until Gmail I was always a stalwart who proudly ran Eudora E-Mail and would always proclaim that it's not a proper email account if you use it through a website, but Gmail has changed my viewpoint somewhat. I can't imagine using anything else now.
They scan your emails for keywords which they then use for advertising, that's what. And did I forget to mention the clause in the T&Cs - when you delete an email under their system it doesn't disappear forever.What's so special about these GMail accounts?
Also, Google operate a number of other sites, and they can potentially build up a profile of you and your usage of your Google account under their single signin policy. Remember that story in the press a while ago where they managed to bust some criminals using Orkut, a Google run site.
Another thing that bugs me about Gmail - why do they feel the need to hide the originating IP address of the person's computer? They do have a bit of an odd set-up.
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from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type;Well if you're a law abiding net user that doesn't store many megabytes of child porn on your account, there's nothing to worry about.Chris wrote:They scan your emails for keywords which they then use for advertising, that's what. And did I forget to mention the clause in the T&Cs - when you delete an email under their system it doesn't disappear forever.What's so special about these GMail accounts?
Also, Google operate a number of other sites, and they can potentially build up a profile of you and your usage of your Google account under their single signin policy. Remember that story in the press a while ago where they managed to bust some criminals using Orkut, a Google run site.
Another thing that bugs me about Gmail - why do they feel the need to hide the originating IP address of the person's computer? They do have a bit of an odd set-up.
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True, but what if they order Google to turn over the names of people with certain political persuasions?Jamez wrote:Well if you're a law abiding net user that doesn't store many megabytes of child porn on your account, there's nothing to worry about.
It's all very well and good saying if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about, but what if you think something is right and justifiable and your "Government" doesn't.
Don't sleepwalk into giving away your privacy.
Not now, maybe. In many European countries though, you can be harassed by the authorities or even jailed if you have a certain point of view.Jamez wrote:I can hardly be put in jail for being on the BNP mailing list.
For example, the BNP would be classed as "holocaust deniers" in Germany. Holocaust denial is a sentencable offence in Germany.