Why webmasters need and like Gmail ?
 

I'm just curious why everybody need that Gmail invites, etc, isn't it better to pay a few bucks a month and have tons of features + your own domain, etc.

Explain it to me, please. I can't understand that. :helpme

g stands for gangster
everybody wants a ganster mail account :Graucho

1gig space for free rocks

No idea..I just noticed of the last 30 webmaster that joined around 10 are using GMAIL!

Andre

Free 1 gig of space, plus it's new so you can have any name you want.

Today's the first I've heard of it.
I've got too many dang emails anyway.

Space worth nothing. A lot of hosting companies have untlimited space in their plans.

And one more question. Have you ever needed that 1Gb in your mail ? Outlook is much more convenient than any webmail, imo.


i'm confused

Webmasters also want to have mainstreadm addys. :D

true...

one thing is interetign with Gmail is the way they disaply messages...all are sorted by the person

I like to sign up at 100 boards a day and shit and like to give a free email addy so my email wont get spamed

Easy to use and simple, plus if you got in early all the best names were still available

i use it for friends and family to email me. that way im not sending and recieving mail from some porn domain.

ok, that's the only reason I see. create some email to not get spammed, but then, why Gmail ? people begging for it ! well, you can create Yahoo (it's 100mb now). but why Gmail ?

what's so good about it to make them beg for it ?

I'm with you, it blows my mind. I have one pop addy for boards and other bullshit, and one for business. If I needed a gig it wouldn't be a problem, and I'm not giving anyone the right to read my e-mails.

I don't even want to correspond with anyone using a gmail account.

very user friendly. plus I got [email protected] and have had 3 digit offers for it all month

I love Gmails search feature.
I mail stuff to myself just to have it handy when I need it. :thumbsup

well, what if you can pay $4.95 for your domain/year and pay like $2.95 monthly to have pop3/smtp access ? and you could have some good domain like your surname and create a few emails for your relatives. isn't it better ?

i have tons ot email addresses, i also work on different computer, move mail from one to another is not very convinient and i dont want to deal with ms exchange.
i'm switching to Gmail, i love how it works and looks, sending and getting email made easy and pleasant. the feel it gives me - almost like bbs chat if not better.
i was dreaming for email interface like they have for a long time.
and targeted advertising works better than any ads/banners i've seen, its not annoing its related to the topic i'm interested in w/o pushing over the border, doesn't irritate at all. basically gives a bunch of additional reference at your fingertips at no cost to you.

and if you don't like reading your email in 'conversation' type of mode you can switch to regular. but i prefer conversation mode.

it doesn't have folders but it has labels - same thing.
more i use gmail, less and less i want to fire up outlook.

being aware of the fact that your email being indexed and corelated to my searches makes me more thoughtful and careful, does not offend or takes away my privacy.
in case i need to protect my privacy i still have secure layer in my pop/smpt ;)

Tala, thank you for the invite!!

Okay I see the difference between pop3 and gmail, but why not use IMAP in stead?

have you seen IMAP web interface close to gmail? i'd pay for it, but i have no time to write my own.

also gmail got awesome spell checker, and email suggestion form your address book when you start typing it in the 'to' field.

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the only 2 drawbacks i can think of now about gmail
- is sending email in different language makes it unreadable, i can't figure out why, altough i have no such problems with yahoo or my other imap accounts.
- will be much convinient when google integrates gmail with google toolbar. i don't think its happening anytime soon as long gmail in beta, or when they upgrade their toolbar and have new version of it in beta too.

Right now gmail is probably the best mail system around. Both on looks and function.

I dont care to explain it. Just a very nice setup

All these people talk shit Gmail is no better than hotmail or anyother free shitty email accounts

The truth is that want to feel important because its by invite only,

as for the idiot that was offered "3 digit offers for it all month" [email protected] is a fucking moron because,

A) He is talking complete bullshit, Who the fuck would want to buy an free email address ?
WTF its not like its going to get type in emails LMAO!!!

B)He's is telling the truth but is still a fucking idiot because he didn't take the money and RUN!!!!!

JayJay, LOL, bloody good humour sense :thumbsup :1orglaugh

And a bit more about Gmail. For me it looks unprofessional when webmaster using some free email addy. Yeah, it's ok when you transferring files between your computers, but not for talking to people. Webmail is for reagular users, not for advanced users, imo. You know how to buy a domain, set the nameservers, maybe configure your mail server, set the outlook - do it! Any custom domain will looks much more good than any free one. It looks to me the same like some design studio would use design from templatemonster for own site.

no idiot. it's a way to start a poker mailing list. there's money in that. later. fish

Well was it A or B?

1 gig of space, the really cool spell checker and not to mention the staring system. hmm tasty.

1GB... Is there any way to upload files, other than as attachments? If so, I might grab a couple of accounts and use it as a free offsite backup solution.

gmail suck. gave me errors today when tried to reply to e-mail

yea, and fix your sig, it gives error too :glugglug