About a week ago, thanks to Ian Holsman, I set up a Gmail account. While the last thing I need is another e-mail account, I was as curious as everyone else. To test the account, I’m publishing, in text, the email address: [email protected]
Not that it would be so hard to figure out my work or home address, but the combination of SpamAssassin and Mail.app (at home) isn’t doing quite as good a job as it used to. The spammers are gaining in the “Red Queen” race, or so it would seem.
Recent mentions/thoughts on Gmail:
- David Pogue in the NYTimes loves Gmail.
- Steve Gillmor at eWeek must think if he says it often enough that Gmail will incorporate RSS. (For the record, I’m sure they will… doesn’t everybody and everything have RSS these days?)
- My friend at Yahoo Mail isn’t quite so happy, but, hey, isn’t competition good for the consumer? Seriously, the storage aspect can so easily be a non-issue. All the current webmail providers do need to think hard about just how much pain it is to switch email addresses. We’ve achieved (sort of) cell phone number portability. Email portability? Well, get your own domain.
Regarding the Gmail service… it’s fast. Threads are different. Not better or worse, so far, just different. Let me know you read this blog, either on the web (sure…) or via an RSS feed (so much more likely), by emailing my Gmail account. That will force me to put the service through its paces a bit more. (Note: I’m not out to receive 1GB of spam. Thanks to Scripting.com for that slice of webness.)