Apr 12, 2004 | 73 views
‘Caroline’ was already taken (grrr aarrgh), but I’ve gots myself a gmail account to play with. So um, send me stuff - if you can make out the address in the screenshot.
The welcome message says ‘Gmail is different.’ It is and it takes getting used to.
The advertising is inobtrusive. It’s fast and smooth. No image bloat. Yay.
Threaded e-mail is cool. See Matt for for info about that.
I like the nerdiness of the keyboard shortcuts (j & k for previous and next conversation). I have never been keen on web-based e-mail and generally check my mail using telnet & mutt or pine whenever I’m abroad. These shortcuts are a nice throwback. I’m sure they’re bewildering to a lot of people.
My first completely selfish gripe: It would be nice if they reduced the username limit from six to five characters. So I can get ‘cvodb’ to work. I can’t help having such a lousy name. ‘cvoosten’ just doesn’t do it for me.
Can I import my old mail? Not yet. Export, too would be groovy.
I’ve forwarded one of my e-mail accounts to gmail and it’s not recognising the vast acres of spam coming in through it. Could be the forward.
Something about that blue screams ‘Yahoo’. Not good.
On shorter messages, the ads run over the bottom nav bar.
Privacy stuff… e-mail was never particularly private, was it?
It would be great if there was a popmail feature where you can read your e-mail on other accounts, but I’m guessing that’s not the point of gmail.
No draft posts, yet.
feature request: ascending AND descending threading (for mad webloggers who have got used to reading stuff the wrong way around)
There’s an ‘expand all’ link. Would be great if it did ‘collapse all’ too.
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4 Comments, Comment or Ping
Gordon
Hey I want Gmail too!! ;-)
Is it the latest greatest thing then?
Apr 12th, 2004
Chris
Yeah, I want it too — I signed up to the mailing list literally like forty-five minutes after they first put the site up! Grrrrr. ;-D
I’ve been looking at the various reviews as they leak out, thanks for providing one more… most of them seem to have been complaining about the absence of geeky features I never would’ve used anyway, so it’s nice to see a human being talk about it. ;-D
Apr 12th, 2004
Marcus
How did you get this gmail account?
Apr 13th, 2004
Caroline
From Santa!
Apr 13th, 2004