Internet: I’ve been using Gmail for a week now. Rave: It’s the fastest e-mail interface I’ve ever seen. Very quick message retrieval. Single keystroke navigation. The conversation view is like threads with tabbed messages.
Rave: The Gmail spam filter works great OOTB. I had to write a few hundred lines of config code to make SpamAssassin work that well on my own mail server.
Rant: I do get related links on the right side of most e-mails. Sometimes these links are a good guess. Most of the time they are annoying. When I am reading a news alert from the New York Times, I don’t need to see related links about that newspaper.
But Gmail is free, so I’ll live with these tiny ads.
Idea: If Gmail would omit the related links, store my contact list and give me IMAP access to my messages, I’d pay a few bucks a month for the service.
Imagine a Gmail appliance… Google already sells a lemony-yellow rack-mount search appliance. Just hook a storage cluster into the back of your Gmail box, and you’ve got instant, scalable, web-enabled corporate e-mail.
Gmail could destroy Microsoft Exchange and Outlook.
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