Gmail rival offers service 'now'

kronas · 08-07-2004, 00:21

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...

kronas · 08-07-2004, 00:27

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Originally Posted by Richard M

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

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

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.

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

08-07-2004, 01:50

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Originally Posted by kronas

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

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

08-07-2004, 10:30

looks like Kronas wants Wallymail ooppsss sorry Wallamail

MetaWraith · 08-07-2004, 11:48

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

roger_smith · 08-07-2004, 18:22

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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

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

08-07-2004, 19:02

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

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

Dave Stones · 08-07-2004, 19:02

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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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

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

**Paul** · 08-07-2004, 19:39

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Originally Posted by Dave Stones

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?

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