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Master Ahnk
11  4:18am 21/06/04        
Blink If You Can Hear Me
It's called a monopoly. The leading search engine on the web moving into the email server and web hosting business is choking the market, in the same way that Microsoft bundling word processors, internet browsers, and email servers with their operating systems was cornering the market.
OS: In a world of bon-bons, you are a twinkie.
Ahnk: God damn you, I am Count Chocula and you know it.
I'm not spending my anniversary night thumping my head against the wall. - Damalis, on Moderating TRF
Then tell him you want it harder, damnit! - Ahnk, on Damalis
Chau Ming
12  4:21am 21/06/04        
"And what exactly is wrong with the name Thumper?"
Ah, righto. It makes more sense when I think about it like an American.
Kas
13  4:21am 21/06/04        
Internaut
Actually, it was about privacy issues. Gmail uses its Adsense ad system to read your email, and then serve ads based upon what you're talking about.

There's no monopoly issue yet, Hotmail, Yahoo, MSN, etc, all have a firm old in the industry, and Gmail will need a lot of momentum to start threatening them.
Beff Pike
14  4:22am 21/06/04        
Bounty Hunter
Monopoly? Can I be the tophat?

I love crack, if it weren't for crack I wouldn't have been able to buy a DVD player for ten bucks.

Seriously though, I wanna be the tophat.
Master Ahnk
15  4:25am 21/06/04        
Blink If You Can Hear Me
Well, anti-adware spyware legislation is hardly limited to California.

In any case, believe if that the monopoly issue WILL come up.
OS: In a world of bon-bons, you are a twinkie.
Ahnk: God damn you, I am Count Chocula and you know it.
I'm not spending my anniversary night thumping my head against the wall. - Damalis, on Moderating TRF
Then tell him you want it harder, damnit! - Ahnk, on Damalis
Kas
16  4:28am 21/06/04        
Internaut
I doubt it, at least, not any time soon. The other mail providers have a huge hold of the market, and they won't let go easily. They'll start upping their service to keep customers, and then Google will do something, etc.

By the way, Gmail has this nifty auto-login feature. Checking the mail is basically as easy as clicking a bookmark, bounces you automatically to the inbox, no typing at all.
Master Ahnk
17  4:30am 21/06/04        
Blink If You Can Hear Me
Hotmail has that too. >_<
OS: In a world of bon-bons, you are a twinkie.
Ahnk: God damn you, I am Count Chocula and you know it.
I'm not spending my anniversary night thumping my head against the wall. - Damalis, on Moderating TRF
Then tell him you want it harder, damnit! - Ahnk, on Damalis
Kas
18  4:37am 21/06/04        
Internaut
Does Hotmail automatically archive all your messages into threads? Eg: all replies back and forth via one thread are all displayed in a condensed version when you view one message.

I haven't used Hotmail for a few years.
Master Ahnk
19  4:39am 21/06/04        
Blink If You Can Hear Me
Automatically it does. It annoys the shit out of me, however, so I delete them.
OS: In a world of bon-bons, you are a twinkie.
Ahnk: God damn you, I am Count Chocula and you know it.
I'm not spending my anniversary night thumping my head against the wall. - Damalis, on Moderating TRF
Then tell him you want it harder, damnit! - Ahnk, on Damalis
Kas
20  4:40am 21/06/04        
Internaut
I kind of like it. I like the search function too, though I don't ever delete email anyway, as all my accounts have POP3 access, so I just use Thunderbird.

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