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AlanYork · 12-07-2005, 01:18

Maybe I should have made it a little more clear what I was driving at.

My understanding of this is that sometimes Norton strips Gmail of text. So, let's say I send an e mail to my friend and they have Norton installed. Are they likely to want to mess around with their Norton in order to read my emails? After all, how are they going to know what's causing the problem and where to fix it? Also, I won't know if a) they have Norton & b) they got 100% of the content.

Don't get me wrong, Gmail's great, it's much better than hotmail...quite frankly no way should I have to use a non NTL proxy to get my trash to delete in hotmail, and why, when I try to send pics, it tells me I have no pictures in the My Pictures folder is utterly beyond me (if I send pics by selecting " send file" rather than "send a picture" it seems to work ok). Gmail has none of these problems, however.....

Given the choice I'd use Gmail every time, but this Norton thing is surely an issue? Norton is one of the most popular firewall/AVs and if that's removing text from Gmail messages, that to my mind is a major drawback.

If I'm missing something obvious here please say, but if Google want to compete with Hotmail, I think they really need to get this sorted out and quickly. There are many, many people in this world who just want their PC to do the basics when they ask it to, to browse the web, to be able to send and receive emails properly etc. They have neither the time, the desire or the knowlege to start messing around with firewalls et al. Why should they? Hotmail, when it works, as in fairness it usually does, takes care of e mails adequately. When it, and other free emails dont have problems with Norton, what's the incentive to change to Google, which does?

12-07-2005, 01:18	#6
AlanYork Inactive Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 178	Re: Gmail and Norton Maybe I should have made it a little more clear what I was driving at. My understanding of this is that sometimes Norton strips Gmail of text. So, let's say I send an e mail to my friend and they have Norton installed. Are they likely to want to mess around with their Norton in order to read my emails? After all, how are they going to know what's causing the problem and where to fix it? Also, I won't know if a) they have Norton & b) they got 100% of the content. Don't get me wrong, Gmail's great, it's much better than hotmail...quite frankly no way should I have to use a non NTL proxy to get my trash to delete in hotmail, and why, when I try to send pics, it tells me I have no pictures in the My Pictures folder is utterly beyond me (if I send pics by selecting " send file" rather than "send a picture" it seems to work ok). Gmail has none of these problems, however..... Given the choice I'd use Gmail every time, but this Norton thing is surely an issue? Norton is one of the most popular firewall/AVs and if that's removing text from Gmail messages, that to my mind is a major drawback. If I'm missing something obvious here please say, but if Google want to compete with Hotmail, I think they really need to get this sorted out and quickly. There are many, many people in this world who just want their PC to do the basics when they ask it to, to browse the web, to be able to send and receive emails properly etc. They have neither the time, the desire or the knowlege to start messing around with firewalls et al. Why should they? Hotmail, when it works, as in fairness it usually does, takes care of e mails adequately. When it, and other free emails dont have problems with Norton, what's the incentive to change to Google, which does?