GMAIL: Have your heard of it? Opinions pls.

gorilla

It's not sinister at all. There's no harm in trying it.
On my lycos account, I am subjected to a full page ad that I have to manually skip if I want to gain access to my inbox, gmail is not that intrusive. If you set it up with an email client you'll never notice.

Curry_Queen

Rex_Mundi wrote:

So while you are reading your emails, you also have adverts displayed that are selected because of info they have picked up while reading through your post.

I know it's not a classic case of spam, but it's pretty much the same thing IMO.

If you're reading your email through a different source it wouldn't be a problem at all

I have several gmail accounts all of which I send/receive via Thunderbird and never need to sign onto the Google site at all

Nelli_2

I maintain 6 different gmail accounts, 1 for my wife, me, son, daughter, open university, shopping (yes you spammers I know who you are now !!! lol).

(the kids are just little 'uns I jumped in and reserved the names for them)

Guess what ?
I love Gmail and so do all my other mates / colleagues. :rotfl:
Once you get used to the "labels" facility it's very flexible and having over 2GB storage is very handy for backing up items from the PC. :T

Curry_Queen

My only complaint so far is that I was refused registration to a forum using a gmail address (they also refuse hotmail, yahoo etc) and as I don't have an ISP email address there was no way round it

But apart from that I think Gmail is great!


Just to add, I rarely receive any spam at all, one or two a month if I'm unlucky! I don't recall having set any filters so it must all be filtered at source or by Thunderbird

Nelli_2

I've had very few spam to date too on any of my accounts BUT if I get one in on my shoppnig one it doesn't take much to work out who passed on my details since I only use it for online shopping ;D