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Sput wrote:

cdd wrote:Why does everyone use Gmail? it's awful...

You mean aside from IMAP access, External POP accounts, mobile access, masses of storage and decent spam filtering?

You're wrong, cdd.

Sorry Chris, but I agree. I used Gmail in Outlook/Mac Mail at work at home, my mobile phone in a neat little applet, anywhere else through the browser... For me at least, Gmail provides me flexibility superior to any other provider for no cost at all.

That leads me nicely onto my next question: Is your hair real or do you paint it on, row?

Sput wrote:

cdd wrote:Why does everyone use Gmail? it's awful...

You mean aside from IMAP access, External POP accounts, mobile access, masses of storage and decent spam filtering?

You're wrong, cdd.

1) IMAP Access is no big deal, although better than their "you can't use anthing but our webmail" approach
2) Wow, get POP accounts into gmail and get more into their walled service
3) Any POP/IMAP account is supported by most mobiles, and natively rather than by some ghastly web interface
4) It offers less storage than hotmail - and that's saying something
5) When I used gmail my spam was filtered but I got lots of false positives which are worse than false negatives

I personally prefer MS Exchange 2007

You're comparing it to a combination of the good features of several other services, but only gmail has anything like all of them.

Not that it matters because you'll never use it all, but Hotmail has 5GB storage while GMail currently has 5.2GB and counting. The spam filter doesn't take much training if you do get false positives, but then there is no such thing as a filter that works perfectly from day one.

Sput wrote:You're comparing it to a combination of the good features of several other services, but only gmail has anything like all of them.

Including that ghastly Conversation View where it reformats every past email and buggers them all up!

I don't know. I use it through thunderbird usually.

Sput wrote:I don't know. I use it through thunderbird usually.

Ah - well since my criticisms of GMail mostly relate to its web interface, I suppose it's not bad a server only tool

Sput wrote:That leads me nicely onto my next question: Is your hair real or do you paint it on, row?

I'm going for the Ming the Merciless look.

rts wrote:I'm going for the Ming the Merciless look.

You would need to change the "puppy dog eyes"/"come-to-bed look" to create the merciless image though, row.

cwathen wrote:snip
The price seems reasonable enough (£180ish retail, but I can get it for about £140 through work), but I don't know which way to go - some reviews say it's the best thing since sliced bread, others reckon it's a bag of shit. Anyone actually used one?

I recomend the N800, or its new brother the N810.




It's about the same size and spec as most other tablets, but runs Maemo, a linux thing which means there's a huge community making apps for it, as well as it's ability to use GPS, Wifi, GPRS etc...