[OT] Gmail..

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:54:43 EDT
Jeff Kinz said:

>
>How useful is Gmail?  One thing I have always disliked about
>web based email system is the lag time for it to respond to 
>any given keystroke/click.
>
>I guess I'm too used to mutt w/local mailbox(es).
>
>Is the search capability fantastically good?  
>That would be worth a lot.

Sorry about the late response, I have something like 5000 unread messages
between my various list subscriptions :)

I've been using Gmail for about 3 months now, but ONLY for
archival/search means.  IOW, when I subscribe to a list, I subscribe
twice, once for my personal account, and once for my gmail account.

I only use my gmail account for collecting e-mail list traffic.  I do
not send e-mail from it, nor do I give it out to people as a means to
contact me by.

I've found it rather useful to be able to have an account which just
collects incoming e-mail which I can then use Google's search engine
for.  It seems more efficient than indexing all my mail and searching
that way, which I used to do.

I still use my personal e-mail account for general correspondence,
since I hate web e-mail interfaces for composition and exmh/emacs are
infinitely better for that...

I barely notice the ads, especially since I seldom look in my gmail
account to do anything but search for something I recently read on a
list but can't remember when or what message.  I would completely
avoid using gmail for this use if e-mail lists in general had better
archiving and search capabilities...

In general, I really like this use model of gmail, though I don't know
how it fits into the larger philisophical questions posed earlier by
Kevin et al.

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