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I am surprised we haven't had a thread about this here until now. When gmail first came out, remember how everyone was madly pursuing getting an invitation? And now, everyone has an account, some have 2-3 accounts and everyone has lots of invites So a gmail invite is not a big deal any longer. I am also pretty sure that only a very low percentage of people who signed up actually use it regularly. Of course, there are the few people who are still die-hard gmail evangelists. But for the rest of us, gmail's interface is unnatural for regular email usage. That threaded discussion view might be nice the first time, but it's hard to efficiently sort your mail using that sort of an interface. I bet gmail marketing is thinking hard how to solve the issue. My guess at the % of gmail account holders who actively use it would be 10-15%, not much more than that. Nish
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I don't use it, but why would gmail marketing care to solve the problem? All the hoopla about the service did it's job, by getting more people thinking about Google beyond search engines. Why would they care if their free service was better someone elses free service? Just curious. Do they sell ad space through gmail somehow, or otherwise get revenue? BW
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Speak for yourself - I use gmail on a daily basis and it is leaps and bounds ahead of any other web mailer I have used. I love threading and the labels works great - I was suspicious of them at first, but once you have created a few rules, they are very useful. I don't see anything unnatural about the UI whatsoever - I like how it groups replies and it is, IMHO, a killer feature.
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Hi Jon, I would like to have an account on Gmail as I'm interested in this new way of free email stuff... I request you to plz invite me for the same... Name:Rakesh Jaiswal e-mail ID:rakesh_mmmec@yahoo.co.in Thanks & Regards, Rakesh
Hi Rakesh, Do you still need one?
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Speak for yourself - I use gmail on a daily basis and it is leaps and bounds ahead of any other web mailer I have used. I love threading and the labels works great - I was suspicious of them at first, but once you have created a few rules, they are very useful. I don't see anything unnatural about the UI whatsoever - I like how it groups replies and it is, IMHO, a killer feature.
I use mine to get Yahoo group email messages. It keeps them nice and threaded for me and I don't have to worry about deleting them. I know that they are all on the Yahoo servers too but sometimes its nicer to have them in a different system. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD
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Speak for yourself - I use gmail on a daily basis and it is leaps and bounds ahead of any other web mailer I have used. I love threading and the labels works great - I was suspicious of them at first, but once you have created a few rules, they are very useful. I don't see anything unnatural about the UI whatsoever - I like how it groups replies and it is, IMHO, a killer feature.
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