That's what I keep saying! Ehat is the big frickin' deal? I guess without realizing it, I've become quite Microsoft-y: I use Hotmail, which can be downloaded into Outlook Express.

Thank you for providing a voice of reason in an otherwise insane world. I signed up for Gmail too. But a) only two other people I know use it and b) more importantly... it's just another damn email account I'll have to start checking.

I have four email accounts, two different IM accounts. Do I really need something that sort of wants to be both, but other than size doesn't have much more to offer.

Anyone can't sign up for one?

Speak for yourself. ;) I fucking love GMail. I love how it keeps my "conversations" together and especially love how I can search it. (Just yesterday I searched "flight new york" to find my itinerary.) For someone without a printer, it's a godsend.

I don't like how it's difficult to delete things and how you can't save drafts, but those are my only complaints. Google your email! I think it's a fantastic idea.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyone want to take a guess on who got me to sign up for Gmail in the first place with her absolute RAVING about it? ;)

C, I find hotmail a little annoying to use. It's also kind of slow.

Paul, not yet. Probably soon though.

Candace, I hate the lack of address book. I send out emails to 'lists' (for rightwing events in NYC) and it's annoying to have to click each individual name.

Ken, and do you love it?

Yahoo just added a lot more memory to thier email. It's great because before it was a constant battle for me to stay below the threshold. Yahoo also stopped making bulkmail count towards your memory.
I really like Yahoo.

With what has been said I see no benefit for me to Gmail. I already use yahoo to screen out my spam (places it in the bulk mail folder which deletes with one button), then close yahoo and open up in outlook express so I can save my real mail to my own file system. That is the worst feature I found with free hotmail and yahoo accounts; they are both difficult or impossible to archive! Of the two, though, until just recently yahoo was much clunkier than hotmail.

So now that you've made your money off of it, you're trying to depress the market????

Selfish, selfish, selfish!