Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:10:27 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists? Message-ID: <000f01c74f35$a844f160$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20070212163116.7219.GERARD@seibercom.net><8a0028260702121345p3a89084co1787fcfb571a2708@mail.gmail.com> <20070212165256.722C.GERARD@seibercom.net>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerard Seibert" <gerard@seibercom.net> To: "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 2:16 PM Subject: Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists? > On Monday February 12, 2007 at 04:45:44 (PM) Jeff Rollin wrote: > > > > In what way does Gmail suck? > > 1) No White Listing > 2) No configurable SPAM Filtering > 3) Bcc doesn't work > 4) 500 message a day limit. > 5) No PGP or S/MIME support > 6) No able to 'Forward as Attachment' > 7) Doesn't handle 'sig delimiter' > 8) No ability to create or sort to folders. > 9) No IMAP support > 10. Is routinely blacklisted by SORBS, among other blacklisting services. > > The list just goes on and on. Get on the GMail discussion list and see > what some of it's users have to say about it. It is good enough for > someone who's greatest need is writing to Grandma, but that is about it. > Hey, gmail rocks, I use it as a test mail account all of the time. Not for production of course, but for sending test messages there's nothing wrong with it. ;-) Could anyone speculate as to why a user on gmail would have the nerve to bitch about the service? They are getting what they paid for, after all! ;-) Ted
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