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kronas

08-07-2004 00:21

Gmail rival offers service 'now'

walla, an israeli communications provider is offering the wallamail service at the 1GB capacity to everyone.

users can sign up at www.walla.com

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offering the ability to attach a variety of multimedia files to e-mail, a range of backgrounds, icons, and emoticons, and continuous account availability, even if a user has been inactive for months, it says.

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WallaMail's big play against Gmail is its entertainment features, however, such as the users' ability to watch video clips in their in-boxes, and attach a digital image to a message to add personal style, Philosoph says.

"We think that features like stationery and smileys are fun and Gmail right now is very textual and very basic. I think in the broadband era people should have more fun with their e-mail,"

source: pcworld.com

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/...RSS,RSS,00.asp

Richard M

08-07-2004 00:25

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"We think that features like stationery and smileys are fun and Gmail right now is very textual and very basic."

Er, that's kind of the whole point... :rolleyes:

kronas

08-07-2004 00:27

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Originally Posted by Richard M

Er, that's kind of the whole point... :rolleyes:

what ?

his point was why just have a plain message when you can add to it.

if you can add some personalisation to it, such as a picture signiture or a video clip incorporated in to the message why not ?

Richard M

08-07-2004 00:31

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Sure, give me spam with video - why not?
If people really need to send me a video, they can give me a link to their FTP server, smtp was never designed for file transfer.

kronas

08-07-2004 00:33

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Originally Posted by Richard M

Sure, give me spam with video - why not?
If people really need to send me a video, they can give me a link to their FTP server, smtp was never designed for file transfer.

:rolleyes:

why be so excessively against such an idea, im sure the service has its limitations.....why settle for less when you can have better ? :)

Earl of Bronze

08-07-2004 01:50

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Originally Posted by kronas

:rolleyes:

why be so excessively against such an idea, im sure the service has its limitations.....why settle for less when you can have better ? :)

Dont mean to sound nasty, but have you signed up for a wallamail account?

aliferste

08-07-2004 10:15

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It seems like a fly by night job...jumping on the bandwagon!

gary_580

08-07-2004 10:30

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looks like Kronas wants Wallymail ooppsss sorry Wallamail

MetaWraith

08-07-2004 11:48

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Spymac have been offering 1GB and other goodies since before Gmail

roger_smith

08-07-2004 18:22

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Originally Posted by MetaWraith

Spymac have been offering 1GB and other goodies since before Gmail

i signed up for that but i cant get it to work :(

Damien

08-07-2004 18:59

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Israel have some pretty crappy laws regarding IT as well, there dont have anything to stop them looking at your mail

kink	08-07-2004 19:02

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I'm afraid i'd rather die than sign up for that one...wallamail that is..... but hotmail looks like it's upping the stakes with it's COMING SOON notification email of "the introduction of a 250 MB inbox as well as the ability to send attachments up to 10 MB." for free :shrug:

I'm not sure i care about any of them since i'm relatively happy with the email accounts i have but obviously the competition can only add more to consumer choice..... so even though i can't use my gmail account, the very public introduction of gmail has been useful nonetheless :D

Dave Stones

08-07-2004 19:02

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i dont think people will stop wanting gmail just because this new service has started. after all, gmail is somewhat a status symbol across the interweb now isnt it, people would prefer to be "@gmail.com" rather than "@walla.com" dont you think?;)

bopdude

08-07-2004 19:08

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Originally Posted by kink

but hotmail looks like it's upping the stakes with it's COMING SOON notification email of "the introduction of a 250 MB inbox as well as the ability to send attachments up to 10 MB." for free :shrug::D

Read about this today and was gonna post about it myself, not bad for a third party e-mail addyy IMHO that is ;) :D

Paul	08-07-2004 19:39

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Originally Posted by Dave Stones

I prefer neither, and I certainly don't consider gmail as a status symbol. :disturbd:

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