GMail - Is it really that good?

[ZeUs!!]

If the FBI weren't watching these forums they sure as hell are now

[Rival]

I don't really like it because it doesn't have folders to organize your stuff. I can't stand having more than 5 emails in my inbox and I currently have like 200 and I'm going insane. So yea, that's the only thing I really don't like about it. I like how it loads fast though, because I have really slow internet. I wish I could go back to my yahoo name but I don't feel like having to go trough that huge ordeal of changing your email again.

You use Labels instead of Folders, and in my opinion its alot better. Its like
having folders, but you can have the same mail in several folders. I have like
an "attachment" label, a "subspace" label and a "friends" label. So if I get a
file with subspace banners from a friends, I can put it in all of those 3 "folders".
Very good! ^_^

[Twerp]

Yahoo and Hotmail are showing up to compete with Google's Gmail, I read it on that site. I dont see how they will do it, and they have to keep it free too!
I dont see any hope for Hotmail.

Yay for competing. Without compitition, nothing would change. You have to keep up with your opponents or change yours to make it better. And making stuff better is always good ^_^.

[Sarien]

If I send an email to multiple recipients from gmail it gets there about a week later, I know one email had still hasn't got there and its to a hotmail account (yes I typed the right address etc etc)

Hotmail and Yahoo both filter mail from gmail as spam.
At least they were for a long while. You couldn't even send invites to a hotmail/yahoo address. That isn't a problem with gmail.

[schope]

I dont gime my gmail address to my friends
when i tried once when i said @gmail.com he said "wtf gmail ? whatta gay thing is that you faget ?"

[Mr. Peanuts]

I don't think Google would waste their time, do you? Jesus christ.

[Selex]

yes google employ 1000's of people to sift through ur personal emails to read about how u jacked off to a late night film...thats makes good business sence for them $$

Really just think about what u are saying...are they gonna read every email...no.

Are they gonna read 5% of the emails...no

Why u ask...cos they wudnt have enough time.

Actually 1000's of people do not sift through mail, I read that google really doesnt have people to do that, the computer does all the work. It just saves all the stuff you do and recieve.
They use keywords, to find mail containing the words they look for, but at the same time a regular person can search for an email address or password and it still find it. I read a different story on how you can use Google to get password for anything. When you ask google to search, it cant deny so it finds everything dealing with that subject.

(From www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com) The point is this: Some two-thirds of all Google searches come in from outside the U.S., and Gmail will also have a global reach. We're not dealing with only the FBI (and yes, the same privacy advocates who oppose Gmail are dealing with the FBI), but potentially with hundreds of agencies in dozens of countries. Google has no data retention policies, and never comments on their relationships with governments. The problem must be addressed at the source, which is Google. Elitist digerati do a disservice to the entire world when they assume such narrow points of view.

[Fluffz]

They use keywords, to find mail containing the words they look for, but at the same time a regular person can search for an email address or password and it still find it. I read a different story on how you can use Google to get password for anything.

noone will be able to search trough your mails if that is what worries you at least according to googles disclaimer.

[Selex]

noone will be able to search trough your mails if that is what worries you at least according to googles disclaimer.

They claim that. The site had good arguments showing they do give access to all Gmail people. The google people deny anything negative to they can get more support.

[DoTheFandango]

Is there anyway I can use G-Mail on a Mail Client?

[DUMBRIT!]

From Google Terms of Use...
Privacy. As a condition to using the Service, you agree to the terms of the Gmail Privacy Policy as it may be updated from time to time. Google understands that privacy is important to you. You do, however, agree that Google may monitor, edit or disclose your personal information, including the content of your emails, if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request (such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, or court order), or as otherwise provided in these Terms of Use and the Gmail Privacy Policy. Personal information collected by Google may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Google Inc. or its agents maintain facilities. By using Gmail, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

Straight from the horses mouth

[Toasty]

i got 12 gmail invites $

[Selex]

No pop-up ads. No untargeted banners.
You see only relevant text ads and links to related web pages of interest.

Www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com shows screenshots of the "relevant" informational ads. Check this out. Nothing relevant about this.

(From www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com--Click on Brandon Mayfield)
Another example is seen in the Google ads at the bottom of this story about Brandon Mayfield. There are two ads. One mentions sexual assault charges (sex has nothing to do with the story), and the other is about anti-terrorism. The entire point of this article, as well as a New York Times piece on May 8, 2004, is that a lawyer has had his career ruined due to overreaction by the FBI, based on disputed evidence.

[sexy wooden spoon]

Actually 1000's of people do not sift through mail, I read that google really doesnt have people to do that, the computer does all the work.

When will u people learn sarcasm.

[Fluffz]

You do, however, agree that Google may monitor, edit or disclose your personal information, including the content of your emails, if required to do so in order to comply with any valid legal process or governmental request

the government has access to everything if they want to

wtf this is not a gmail problem. if you shift trough any serious email provider´s therms of use you will find something similar.