Originally Posted by kronas

yes i have been reading various commentrys the privacy concerns, as it scans phrases of 'incoming' mail to the inbox and attaches advertisements to the email, it does not read the contents simply attaches the appropriate advertisments to a particular word/email.

Originally Posted by stuey82

Well peeps... searching through the web as I do.. I found a website with screenshots of the new 'gmail' which seems to have launched already. I haven't a clue if their fake... but take a look:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/2/2004/April/7848.shtml

Originally Posted by Richard M

I has launched but it not yet available to the general internet public yet.

Originally Posted by kronas

thought i would stick this in here incase people miss it and want a 1GB inbox which includes:

1 GB e-mail account
250 MB of space to upload pictures in the Spymac Gallery
100 MB free space on Spymac Hosting with WebDAV access*
Free iCal Hosting (both public and private)*
Access to the Spymac Forums and Shoutbox
Your very own Spymac Blog*
Access to the Spymac Auctions
The ability to create your very own personal Gallery and Forum

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=10756

all free :D

Originally Posted by stuey82

I saw it yesterday... only thing is... spymac is quite slow. They note the slow speed on the front page but to send an email took forever last night! Grr!

... can't really complain though - ITS FREE!

Originally Posted by towny

Well, looks like gMail is in for a rough ride - now a US senator is objecting to it due to 'intrusive' advertising.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3621169.stm

Personally, I don't understand this point of view - yes, they're going tobe adding adverts to mails, but they are doing so as part of a free service that no-one is under any obligation to use. How is it intrusive if people are willing to accept the terms and conditions?