AVR-Chat

Michael Haisley wrote:

> Gmail is distinctive in a lot of ways, and provides a lot of features,
> that are not present in most other clients.
> 
> First off: Space, a whopping 1GB of space comes with each account.
> 
> Second and probably most important is google's search functions, are
> built into the email client, I can create labels using a google-type
> search of my inbox, and call up all messages, for example pertaining
> to AVRs, traditionally, with most clients you can create folders, and
> do kinda the same thing, but the nice thing about this is, that you
> can have multiple labels per message, Ie in the previous example, I
> could have a message on AVR Programmers that would get the label
> hardware, & the label AVR, this makes sorting much easier.
> 
> Third, is the way individual messages, are handled, google groups them
> in threads, much like a usenet type newsgroup, all replys are grouped
> with the original message, so that you can read them together, in
> context.
> 
> The other big feature is archiving, with 1 GB of space, you really
> don't need to delete email that often, if at all so I could quickly
> search my inbox, and find a message from several months ago.

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Well, you and Dave have given great reasons to be using Gmail instead of 
Hotmail, but I'm still wondering if it is worthwhile to use Gmail 
instead of my regular ISP-email and Netscape 7 as my reader.  For 
instance, my storage space is limited only by available space on my 
harddrives, and Netscape has a tremendously flexible and versatile 
search function, and it also includes 'labels' -- however, it does not 
permit _multiple_ labels per message, although I don't know exactly how 
much of a shortcoming that really is.  Netscape can group messages into 
threads, too.

Anyway, I don't understand the purpose of needing to be invited, and 
having limits on how many you can invite; that sounds more like a 
marketing scheme to me, to make it seem exclusive.  I can't see how 
restrictions like that are going to eliminate or reduce spam.

Cheers.

Bill Velek