OFF: Gmail (Re: NIK: HW: Burg Herzberg etc.)

[Drill]

The service is killer, compared with everything I've used in the past.
No Spam, alot of user control and really well thought-out automatic
organization of your messages. "Benevolently" what it does is scan
your messages and fills about 1/18  of the screen with text blurbs and
links to sponsors' pages. It's actually interesting even and hard to
even notice if you don't want to. For example right now it thinks I
like Fleetwood Mac and is helping me out by telling me where to
download "billions of mp3s".  But shortly after I started using it I
got a message from someone about a Japanese woodcut illustration and
it showed me where to buy them. Wasn't in the market, but hey, if I
was I would have looked at the vendor. For free anonymously subscribed
webmail it's way better than the annoying ghettos I've known in the
past let's say. 2Gigs storage, POP, sophisticated or plain HTML
webmail, the works and it's not even officially released!  As for what
they do for advertising if you use POP service I don't know yet since
I don't get internet for my home computer right now.

On 7/21/05, Paul Mather <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 12:33 -0400, Drill wrote:
>
> > Gmail is excellent to me and they don't screw around, ever so far. The
> > only problem I had earlier on was logging in with a dated Mac system
> > and I quickly found a version of Firefox that would click through.
> > Since then (gmail's still officially in beta testing) they've I think
> > made a way through with POP3 and a more skeletal HTML version of their
> > webmail. Give it a try, hardly even what you'd call a form to fill
> > out.
>
> If Gmail is to support POP3, where will they put the targeted adverts?
> Will they insert them directly into your e-mail?
>
> BTW, given the distaste Keith has shown in the past over store "loyalty
> cards" and the profiling that goes with them, I doubt he'd be
> comfortable using a service with serious privacy concerns like
> Gmail. :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
> --
> e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu
>
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>         --- Frank Vincent Zappa
>


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