OT: gmail (was Re: Is there anybody out there?)

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
> 
> Four score and seven years--eh, screw that!
> At about Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 07:47:01PM -0400,
> Kenneth Brody blabbed on about:
> >
> > I was playing with my gmail account to reply, and discovered:
> 
> I can sum this up in but a few words:
> 
>      "Web-based email is evil incarnate."

I know.  I do use SpamCop's webmail interface to preview possible spam,
and to read e-mail on the road, but I POP it back here for "real" use.

I got a gmail account mostly for the geek factor, which isn't as high
as it was when gmail first started.  I doubt I'll use it for much else.
Of course, the days of getting big bucks by selling invites on eBay are
long gone.   ;-(   (No, I didn't pay for mine.  Why do you ask?)

> I've seen a few uses for it, but personally...I'd rather telnet into the
> pop3 port and read the messages with the raw commands and my terminal
> emulator's scrollback.

I think you'll get a kick out of this:

http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html

    GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail
    account as its storage medium.

:-)

> There are -way- too many ways to break web-based email, and the very design
> of most setups is akin to many bulletin board forums, most of which
> specialise in emoticons, proprietary mark-up languages, etc.  All the bells
> and whistles you don't need, none of the power and convenience you want.


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