[WBEL-users] Google Alert - "beau.org/pipermail/whitebox-users"

Maartin Barac Maartin Barac <maartin.barac@gmail.com>
Mon, 8 Nov 2004 20:06:04 +0200


gmail rocks man this conversation feature is just so cool I love it.

I have been a user now only for 23 months not a single spam message as
yet not via a list or directly.


On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 01:09:59 -0600, psychoelmo <psychoelmo@gmail.com> wrote:
> with the giga-wars in the free email business, i'd suggest picking up
> a gmail account for mailing lists, and only them (there's plenty of
> sites offering invites w/o a catch). a gig of storage, message
> threading, and easy searches, can't really beat it for list mail. the
> ads? hardly notice them. most threads are longer than the first
> screen, and the ads (text only) are only "above the fold".
> 
> i find it a great place to stash high-volume lists like debian's.
> their spam filters aren't bad, they miss some though. they'll improve
> over time, i suppose. most of the spam is actually sent to a list, not
> to my address itself. i also like that i can look and google through
> old list mails at home or at work. a heck of a lot easier than digging
> through the actual list archive itself, especially if you're looking
> for something but dont remember exactly which list it was in. but i
> dread the time i have to go back and clean out old mail to make room
> for more. they haven't implemented an easy way to delete quantities of
> mail yet. (got a few months to go before i run out of space though :)
> 
> 
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