Okay what the hell is so special about a Gmail account?

Free e-mail accounts themselves are neither interesting nor new. ;-)

Gmail uses Google search technology to find messages so users don't have to create folders and file their individual emails. Many of Gmail's other features also incorporate search technology to improve their effectiveness. Used this way, search enhances the efficiency of email, so we believe it's a natural area for Google to offer a service.

That was the appeal for me until I found out usernames had to be six characters long, which leaves out ALL of my names. Oh, unless Walker isn't taken. I should check.

The technical aspect things are pretty cool so far. I already have free email with no limit on storage space, and no one ever sends me huge files anyway except occasional proofs (I think it'd be the Large File Issue more than the Email Storage issue, vis-a-vis storage limits). But another free, nifty account won't kill me.

The PR doesn't appeal to me there.

I mean it's free... It's not like I'll lose anything by trying it.

Ned, .org addresses are for pussies.

sbc = $30/month (dsl/telephone svc.)

I wouldn't use it. Give it to someone who asks.

mine's 76 GB!

This is one of those questions that honestly befuddles me in that I've never had or felt the need to do this, or it's been so rare that I don't remember same. I guess I envision computers and their uses differently.

(ie."I rarely leave the house")

must be me. then again, i'm always out on the the sunset strip.

digital photobooks?

*scratches chin*

MP3s?

iPod.

databases?

Huh.

movies?

I'd just bring a book or two.

then again, i'm always out on the the sunset strip.

Ah right.

M.I.A. "Fire Fire"

Unless of course you dont have a pop3 email account for whatever reason, and many people dont. I got one as a backup - I also use it online, so I dont need to spaminate my proper email (though thats somehow now gotten spammed to death anyway). And my own-domain email's being an arse lately.

And yeah, I could get a good username.

Personally I think gmails a bit ass, the threaded message thing is silly, pointless and ENCOURAGES TOP POSTING ARRGHH.

I use it, but it's really slow.

I have no idea what you just said -- SEXY.

(Not like I'm King Komputer Nerd or anything.)

Anyway, it's indie geek cachet.

Gygax on the money, in the mid-term at least.

Ned, all our arguments may not sway you as they have no effects on your life (though, y'know, you might one day fancy watching a movie rather than reading a book), but EACH argument means something to someone, so it's self-justifying.

Anyway, everyone knows that the #1 good thing about gmail is that it's not open to the public, so we're special.

WTF am i going to do with that? how can i use it?

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

anyone getting this?

Works fine for me, and I just sent some mail maybe an hour ago.

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

http://www.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com/

The world... alphabetically!
We overfly cities in alphabetical order for your convenience. Why didn't other airlines think to organize the world this logically?

No pop-up ads.
A pop-up ad at 30,000 feet is not only irritating, but dangerous. We'll make sure that only exceptionally high-flying birds and small targeted asteroids reach you.

Just eavesdroppin' in!
We will land from time to time to refuel, but only in cities you've expressed an interest in during conversations we've eavesdropped on.

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

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Oral R. is temporarily in a Moebius loop. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorta sorry for the inconvenience. There is the theory of the Moebius. A twist in the fabric of space where time becomes a loop where time becomes a loop...

Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience.

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Well done -- adding an extra letter to your name clearly means you must subtract one from mine. ;-)

I still really do not understand people's paranoia over this, compared to say hotmail/yahoo/anyotherwebmail.

PS Jon get the fuck over it - only you are having a problem, and you've probably now manaaged to self-blacklist yr IP by trying over and over or some dumb shit.

Since it appears that invites are generated after you'd received some gmail on your new account, could everyone please send me something?? Anything!

Please send to CJ2004@gmail.com

Eternally grateful, etc etc etc :)

"techno techno terrorist paedophile dirty bomb bomb
bomb london explosion midnight techno techno uranium
fallout shelter world war security force royal family
queen charles death death assassin"

and am yet to be a; arrested and b; given more invites.

why would people arrest you for quoting the new le tigre single?

However, my account is like half full from certain folks filling it with comic books. ;) So of course I just sent myself an invite for a backup account.

Is it available for macs?

(my friend uses a mac and apparently it needed some kind of ActiveX or soemthing)

...presuming this is still how it works...

The spam filtering is very good, I agree. Other cool stuff: if you're using Firefox, you can install the gmail toolbar:

https://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=173&vid=504

which makes it less like webmail and more like email, just built into your browser. And there are apparently a lot more big plans along these lines, with a Firefox-Google titan app.

http://mozillanews.org/?article_date=2004-10-19+01-52-31

Don't "Hooray No Spam Here!" me so smugly, I just pressed the "delete all" button.

i get pharmacy spam that seems like it would be pretty easy for them to block almost every week....just one or two, but still

Gmail has been quite buggy for me the last few months. Mainly in these two departments:

1)Put in username and password, the almost blank "Loading..." screen, and then nothing.
2)Completely freezing up in the inbox over and over again.

Is there a way to stop it from offering me spam recipes?

akm, does it go through to your regular mail, or is it relegated to your spam folder? As best I can remember, I've never had an actual spam mail make it through to my regular inbox in nearly 4 years. I've almost forgotten what that's like.

I had one dick enlargement message that got around the google geeks by pretending to be about computers - "In my day we all had 8 inch floppies!"

It is extremely good at filtering spam, one piece gets through every couple of months or so. I also like the way it organises conversations.

Yeah, the threaded conversation is the best thing about it.

i get pharmacy spam that seems like it would be pretty easy for them to block almost every week....just one or two, but still

Are you using these spams to train the filter? That helps a lot.

Is gmail, now, better than other kinds of email? If so, how?

If you value privacy, Gmail -- no "free" mail, for that matter -- is better than mail you host yrself. Each email you send and receive via Gmail is one more data point in a massive database that Google uses for marketing and other purposes you can only guess at.

However, if you don't mind that, and you want "free", then Gmail is pretty good. Both IMAP and POP access are free, the spam filters are pretty good once trained, and the storage is impressive. I don't know of any other free mail service that gives you all that.

Thanks for the response, but I don't understand it.

[Gmail -- no "free" mail, for that matter -- is better than mail you host yrself]
- but you seem to go on to say it's bad for privacy, not good.

[mail you host yrself]
- what does this mean?

["free"]
- isn't all email free, leaving aside the cost of an internet connection?

[IMAP and POP access]
- what are these?

[storage is impressive. I don't know of any other free mail service that gives you all that]

But I have a yahoo mail account that, as far as I know, has unlimited storage, whatever that means; in any case it tells me 'the storage bar is history'.

No, not all mail is free. I have about 3 email accounts I actively use; one I pay to have hosted on a server. The reason for this used to be that I have my own domains, and I want to get mail at them instead of @gmail.com, but now that there's Gmail for yr domain, I'm no longer quite as sure about that. (I haven't tried it, and I don't even know if it'd work for me.)

The privacy issue is something you have to decide for yrself. Some folks don't want Google indexing their "content". I can't advise you on that, since the issue isn't clear-cut.

Yahoo offers unlimited storage, perhaps, but IMAP is not free. That's absolutely crucial for me. IMAP access means I don't have to use a web interface for mail: I can just use any normal mail client, like Apple Mail or Thunderbird or Outlook Express or Mutt or whatever. I cannot stand dealing with webmail interfaces (including Gmail), which are universally clunky, inefficient, and just plain annoying; also, I use fetchmail, which requires some kind of direct access, be it POP or IMAP.

You said "If you value privacy, Gmail [...] is better than mail you host yrself." But you also seem to be saying the reverse.

As I said, I don't know what "mail you host yrself" means; nor IMAP or POP.

Sorry I meant Gmail is not better.

IMAP and POP are how email clients connect to the server to get the mail.

"Mail you host yrself" means that you run the server, manage the mail spool, etc. I seriously doubt it's something you would want to get into unless you are particularly technically inclined.

gchat and threaded messages are so awesome - i am a recent convert from pop

My point with the hosting stuff is this: Any time you are not personally responsible for yr mail, then there's always a chance that someone who IS responsible is poking through it for shits and giggles or profit. Believe me, the people who run mail servers DO that.

So you can either run the mail server yrself or you can PGP-encrypt any and all email communications. Of course, if you use PGP all the time, you'll have a dandy fun time sending email to yrself and probably nobody else.

libcrypt fucked up. he meant "if you value privacy, don't use gmail, because they use your conversations to inform a big marketing database."

Which is really, to me, a bit of a joke at this point, since it would appear the same internet that was making a fuss about this years ago when it was first proposed have now gone out and made facebook and myspace pages etc etc. so if you're on the internet, and you don't know what TOR or GnuPG are, just use gmail, for crying out loud.

Unless you're already happy with yahoo, in which case, never mind.

I send all my mail to my mac mail but i wish it would delete all my mail in my host accounts when i go to <mail box> <erase deleted messages> <pop account>

So you don't have to double your time erasing/trashing. y'know. I have 3 separate mails so it gets kinda sucky sucky.

libcrypt: Well, I certainly can't do that. I don't know what PGP-encrypt means, either (let alone TOR or GnuPG). Evidently you are a person of great technological skill and knowledge, greater anyway than many of us.

People keep using the word 'pop' or POP. what do you mean by it? or is it too complex to explain?

Can anyone tell me whether, or why or how, gmail is better than other available email services like hotmail and yahoo mail?

I'm not a person of that much tech skill and knowledge. This has just been my job for 12 years or so. I don't mean to speak so cryptically, but it's hard to judge the experience of the folks I'm trying to explain stuff to.

POP = Post Office Protocol. It should be capitalized thus. If you download Thunderbird and set it up to read mail, then it may use POP to talk to the server and obtain yr mails. It's just a protocol -- consider this to be a "language" of sorts -- and pretty much everything on the Internet has some kind of well-defined protocol for doing its things.

IMAP = Internet Message Access Protocol (I think). It's like POP, but it's a lot more sophisticated. It lets you mark messages as read or forwarded or whatever, so that you can read mail from several locations and it will still make sense to you. This protocol is spoken by most email clients, but not by web clients such as (native) Gmail or Yahoo.

PGP = Pretty Good Privacy. It's a well-defined "public encryption" method that allows you to hide yr emails from bad peoples who want to read them when you don't want them to read yr mails. PGP is called "public" encryption because you have two keys, one for encrypting and one for decrypting. The encrypting one you can give away and it doesn't reduce yr security. The decrypting one you must keep private. GPG = GnuPG = PGP, but it's an open-source (don't ask! -- it's just "free") implementation of PGP.

TOR = not so relevant here.

if you use a program like outlook or thunderbird that stores your messages on your computer youre probably using pop mail

if you access your email through a web browser from sites like gmail or hotmail that store your messages on their servers youre using webmail

gmail is better than yahoo or hotmail cause of awesome features like lol hueg storage, threaded messages and really good search etc.

Can someone reecommend a basic hosting service? Just want to own my own email, not hosting any crazy sites or anything.

if you just want email yr best bet maybe to go w/free ad supported hosting offered w/domain registration from places like https://www.godaddy.com

the only this that sucks abt that is people will look at yr site when they see it in yr email address and then yr home page will have ads on it

registrars offer cheap hosting too tho - prob good if yr not going to really do anything w/yr site - although itd be a good idea to at least put up a home page

[gmail is better than yahoo or hotmail cause of awesome features like lol hueg storage, threaded messages and really good search etc.]

as I said earlier, yahoo mail claims, I think, to have infinite storage.

the other features you mention I am not familiar with.

Are the various things discussed in the last few posts here quite common knowledge? or are they only known to a relatively few people? I don't know anything about them and have never heard anyone talk about them before.

I think they're fairly common knowledge.

To answer yr original question, Gmail isn't "better" email at all -- it's the same as other email. The things that make it so popular are that the webpage you can use to read it allows you to search messages very quickly, and it sorts emails into an ILX-type thread it calls a "conversation". It also has a nice instant-messenger chat thing, and is good at catching spam emails.

So does it not show all your received mails in chronological order? That must be curious. Hard to imagine.

Actually I doubt that this

[PGP is called "public" encryption because you have two keys, one for encrypting and one for decrypting]

is common knowledge, outside some MIT laboratory.

It does show them chronologically -- imagine your inbox as ILX's New Answers page. When a new email is sent and is part of an existing conversation, it bumps that to the top. Very handy for mailing lists.

I dunno about PGP, it's pretty common knowledge among techier types -- it's certainly not esoteric or overly academic

The major reason that Yahoo! mail is inferior to Gmail, in my opinion, is that Yahoo! still charges for POP/IMAP access. This means that you cannot use Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Outlook Express, or whatever yr fave email program is to read email, if you use Yahoo!

but how common are 'techier types'? isn't that by definition a limited group? are they any more common than eg 'academics'?

I can't imagine this gmail inbox you describe. I may have to go and set one up, just to see it. I already did set one up, a while ago - it took an ages - but something about it dismayed me so I never got to see it work.

Actually I think that one thing about it that dismayed me was the fact that I got the impression that you had to have a yahoo account to use flickr. That sounds implausible, put like that, but it did seem that there was some connection between the two, which put me off the idea of trying to use this putative gmail account as a basis for such things.

but how common are 'techier types'? isn't that by definition a limited group? are they any more common than eg 'academics'?

Yeah, a lot more common. Especially on the lol internet, which is ruled by nerds.

You do have to have a Yahoo! acct to use Flickr, I believe. This changed when Y! bought Flickr.

oh, that is interesting to know. amazing, in a way, to find that I was right about this.

when you say 'lol internet' do you mean 'laugh out loud internet'? if so, why do you call it that? or maybe 'lol' here means something else.

reflecting again, not pragmatically I guess but just out of interest, on the 'common knowledge' idea: do people really have 'yr fave email programs' in the way you describe, libcrypt? I don't doubt that you do, and some of your friends and other people who happen to be experts on email or the www. but really, how many people have a 'fave email program' in that sense? surely this really is esoteric? I just cannot believe that the people who serve me in the supermarket, drive the train or bus I get on, or sell me bananas or stamps - and such people are, I suppose, the majority of my country's population - have heard of such things. in fact I can't believe that most people I know (who mostly do different kinds of jobs from the ones just mentioned) have, either.

that doesn't mean it's not a good thing to know, just that only a limited number of people, like you, know or understand it. I don't imply that your extensive knowledge is a bad thing. it's probably a great thing, for you.

what point are you trying to make, pinefox?

the occasional important email going to spam box = major dud

I can explain IMAP and POP but there's no way I can explain lol internet.

pinefox, if you don't have a fave email program, then it's truly something you need not be concerned with.

where's that post where pinefox is like "what is all this about a new 'horseless carriage' contraption? i'm not sure i care for it."

:D

I just cannot believe that the people who serve me in the supermarket, drive the train or bus I get on, or sell me bananas or stamps - and such people are, I suppose, the majority of my country's population - have heard of such things.

Try it out -- ask them if they've ever heard of "Outlook". Betcha they will have. (Outlook is to email as Microsoft Word is to word processing)

the pinefox is just fucking w/us right

Clearly you're new here.

the occasional important email going to spam box = major dud

Amen to that. If anything, gmail is a little overzealous in its identification of spam. Admittedly it's only happened perhaps 3-5 times in the last couple of years that I've been using gmail that non-spam emails would be shunted away as spam, but in every case the emails in question were blatantly not spam, coming from semi-regular correspondents of mine, in particular from people that I've actually emailed to-and-fro with many times. This has made me wary enough to check and manually clear my spam box about once a day or so. I was disappointed with gmail's spam filtering on these occasions.

My current favourite things about gmail is the ability to add coloured labels to ones emails. I only recently discovered this and it's been an absolute revelation for me, making my inbox and archive so much easier to look at, interpret and navigate.

Even better is then linking up the coloured labels you have set up with various filters, so that the labels get added automatically to incoming & outgoing mail according to various criteria.

For a long while I was skeptical about the lack of 'folders' in gmail, but labels are its alternative interpretation and I'm very enjoying them.

I do wish there were more colours available though, certainly more strong (i.e. dark) colours, as the majority of those they offer are too pathetically weak to be useful and I've run out of the good ones.

*very much enjoying them

I dunno about PGP, it's pretty common knowledge among techier types -- it's certainly not esoteric or overly academic

ok HAW @ this

what does 'HAW' mean? is it similar to 'LOL'?

the colours feature sounds interesting! on yahoo mail you have Folders, which certainly are useful, to get things out of the way. Do you really not have them on gmail? I think I am going to have to try to set up one of these accounts again, just to see all this for myself.

re. comment above - I have used Outlook myself, though never encountered Thunderbird et al. But the distinctions that are being drawn on this list would, I maintain, be obscure to most of the people I meet every day (as described earlier: market traders, bus drivers et al). so what? I can't remember - I think we were just talking, last night, about how esoteric these various terms were, after libcrypt et al demonstrated the extent of their specialist knowledge.

a broader question I suppose is: what relation to most people have to the www or email? Lots of people, who work in offices, use email all the time, and see (or even do) other things on the www too. But lots of people don't do that kind of job or have that kind of life. I picture them having www connections at home perhaps, that they get to check in the evenings. I imagine that they use the email facilities that are offered them by eg British Telecom who supply their www service. I'm not sure most of them will have explored the many alternatives of yahoo, gmail etc.

I also think that some people probably have no www interaction at all. for some reason I imagine a gender distinction here - the middle-aged women on my local market I picture getting along without email accounts, while perhaps their husbands study fishing websites at the weekends.

I think that pinefox has a point. As relatively savvy internet users (for the most part I assume people here are) we come from a biased perspective and are perhaps liable to forget that a lot of people either don't use the internet or know or care about it anything like as much as we (at least I) do.

No, there are no folders in gmail. You can tidy things up by archiving stuff (which removes it from the inbox) and by using the labelling (and colouring) system. Once you have labels set up, you can choose to view only the mail marked with a particular label, so in that way it works similarly to folders.

Eh? I see the labelling system in gmail as prescicely like folders.

Label it, archive it - its off in a folder.

I just cannot believe that the people who serve me in the supermarket, drive the train or bus I get on, or sell me bananas or stamps - and such people are, I suppose, the majority of my country's population - have heard of such things.

Try it out -- ask them if they've ever heard of "Outlook". Betcha they will have. (Outlook is to email as Microsoft Word is to word processing)

i don't think so - if they've worked in an office before, perhaps. but your supermarket staff might not have done and is probable to have never used outlook, or word, to be honest!

Perhaps SOME KNOW WHAT IT IS AND SOME DON'T.

Pinefox - as I see it you're in danger of getting bogged down in all sorts of stuff that doesn't really matter. I think the things that are most important to they way you would use Gmail are:

- Threaded email conversations. Really useful for mailing lists and I assume you're on a few.

- Loads of storage

- Ability to email and receive large files, eg music.

Oh also SEARCH FUNCTION.

Thank you for your interest, DC.

This Search Function sounds quite useful, actually.

I think I am going to resolve to set up another gmail account, and this time actually see how it works.

We shouldn't have lost that game yesterday.

PF, there's a search box on yahoo mail page.

i think anything the pinefox will gain in setting up a gmail account on top of his yahoo account will be negated by the need to then check 2 mailboxes. just stick with the one and have done with it.

this thread is like the old days! ^_^

DG, I liked your comments on another thread (UK economy?), re. what ilx could have done to prevent recession: 'geezaesthetics', 'M. Carlin "character"'. those comments were droll.

thank you pinefox

This thread has been quite useful, because like The Pinefox I really don't know much about this stuff, like POP and IMAP and what have you. And I agree with you that the majority of people don't probably know or even care about such things. I have heard of PGP, but in order to use it, doesn't it mean both you and the person you're exchanging emails have to have it? (Actually, I'm not sure what PGP is in concrete terms - is it some sort of a plugin you attach to your email program?) Because I don't think any of the people I exchange emails with uses it.

- Loads of storage

- Ability to email and receive large files, eg music.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Yahoo mail offer both these too?

"I agree with you" = "I agree with The Pinefox"

I was trying to ignore pinefox's suspiciously trollish characteristics, but this one pretty much gives him away:

what does 'HAW' mean? is it similar to 'LOL'?

'HAW' is indeed a specialized, esoteric term. Only those in the very elite group known as the literate understand its meaning and can respond appropriately.

Hot Asian Woman

???

what is a trollish characteristic?

yes

For Chu The Belle Trolls

My Ken's Got Miraculous Pique-niques

Tuomas has heard of PGP.

Is english the Pinefox's first language

I've heard of IMAP and POP in relation to e-mail but don't know what they mean. Never heard of PGP or GPG or whatever. And I think I'm relatively computer-savvy for someone who's not a tech geek at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

James Joyce

this thread is going to get more interesting when google's medical record shit gets released.

Only because people are stupid

Eh? I see the labelling system in gmail as prescicely like folders.
Same message can have multiple labels; can't nest labels.

Labels : Folders :: RDBMS : OOP

Take that, jargon-haterz.

Eh? I see the labelling system in gmail as prescicely like folders.

When you put something into a folder does it not generally disappear from view unless you are looking at the particular folder that it's been placed in? When you label messages in the Inbox or Archive they are all still visible, just with the labels added.

pinefox: you are a treat

FWIW, in my experience Yahoo's email is much more over-zealous than Google's at spam-filtering; when I used Yahoo mail, I turned the spam filtering off altogether because it was more trouble than it was worth.

You need a Yahoo account to use Flickr, but not a Yahoo *email* account.

Is anyone trying any of the new Google Mail Labs features?

I like the "Superstars" one, which gives you a bunch of additional star type icons to label mail with, and even after just a few minutes use, I would like to see that adopted as a normal feature.

The "Quick Links" one looks like it might be useful, though I'm not sure how personally as yet.

New labs features added, including a custom colours for labels one, which looks like the perfect answer to one of my long-standing requests for more colours.

Another new labs feature that sounds cool: Undo Send.

Looks like it holds your emails for 5 seconds, during which time you can hit undo to stop them being sent. I can think of a couple of instances in the last few weeks when this would have been useful. Will have to see how it goes.

I've just activated the labs "Priority Inbox" feature. I'm hoping for good things from this, as I've been feeling increasingly swamped by emails lately.

Look at me being the lonely saddo posting to the void about gmail features for the last 2 years. Bah.

I watched the priority email video - I don't really need this feature but it was a 100% enjoyable video to watch!

18 months late, but thx for the heads up on Undo Send, had no idea this existed.

someone cloned my gmail address and is now spamming my firends/contacts ten times a day, is there anything i can do about this beyond just close down the account and start another?

I use 'Undo Send' quite often - I seem to only notice spelling mistakes and the like in those few moments of scanning the email after pressing 'Send', so it's very useful there.

stevie, i think changing your password might help? or maybe not?

thanks jordan, will give that a try

Also, and again, idk if this will help, but if you go to the bottom and go to 'last account activity' then click on details, you can sign out of any other sessions you are logged in to.

Priority inbox has been incredible with the gmail I set up for all my work emails -- genuinely is pulling out the do-now msgs.

I had the option for priority inbox yesterday, but was too busy to look at it more closely. Today its gone.

lol didn't bother as i get about three emails per day MAX.

stevie I don't know exactly what you mean by "cloned" but a spammer can put any address he wants in the "from" field, it's called spoofing. so yeah other than ditching that account so your friends can block it there's not much you can do. I would think your friends' spam filters would catch those though..

yeah i think that's what's happened, kerm. my friends' (and also editors') spam filters do catch the spams, but also my emails too, which has become problematic. i guess i'll have to ditch the address...

it's possible your gmail has been hacked, change your password.

this new compose window is boss

I actually lolled the other day when I was sending a file to someone and forgot to include it. When I hit 'send' a window popped up saying "Your message contains the words 'attached is' but there are no attachments. Would you like to include some?" <3 u guyz

god but i hate change

1000MB
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That Compose Window is really fucking useful. I hate having to flick between two tabs, both with Gmail open.

the reply window makes inline replies even harder. damn top-posting

when i exceeded my initial storage limit a few years ago i paid what appeared to be a onetime fee for more storage, but at some point it because a monthly rolling $2.95 charge, which every few months happens when i have no money and then out of nowhere i'm not allowed to send or receive any new e-mails for a couple of days while i get that sorted out. really goddamn annoying. i wish it would let me just pay the monthly fee for the whole year or something.

I've had my account for eight years without deleting anything and I'm not even at 40% capacity yet. Is yours full of music or something?

New compose isn't good with a maximised window on a large desktop, unless you enjoy staring at the corner of the screen.

I've found down arrow then tab sorts out the inline reply.

Ah, you can shift-click the compose button to get the old widget.

down-arrow tab does the trick, thanks!

its like a real big chat

fat chat

hay no blank subject warning alright!

blank subject warning went a while back iirc? i haven't got one in a while.

my gmail sends emails and often receives replies, sometimes even completely new emails it's very good