Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:56:52 +0000 From: "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com> To: "User Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GMail [and other free email] and these lists? Message-ID: <8a0028260702140556y68c1b3c7ted537f5927657909@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000f01c74f35$a844f160$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <20070212163116.7219.GERARD@seibercom.net> <8a0028260702121345p3a89084co1787fcfb571a2708@mail.gmail.com> <20070212165256.722C.GERARD@seibercom.net> <000f01c74f35$a844f160$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
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On 13/02/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > > ----- 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! > ;-) > > > I will agree that some of these features (or lack of them) are annoying, however Gmail does have the advantage of being accessible from wherever I am, and being a whole heck of a lot faster than my ISP's Netmail service, for example. I haven't yet found the perfect email service/client, though. Maybe I should post here when I do! Jeff
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