A GMail alternative, today

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Published Wednesday, June 09, 2004 9:57 PM by RoyOsherove
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Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:41 PM by RohanD

# re: A GMail alternative, today

Roy, do you want a Gmail account? I have an invite left.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:59 PM by rick

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Roy's next post: a gmail love letter! haha.

I want gmail for the search/sorting capabilities. The 1GB size means very little to me actually.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004 9:15 PM by Colt

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I tried SpyMac last week, the speed is very slow and I even can't send out any email. (It always prompt me that there's an invalid configuration in the mail server..blah blah.. and you won't find any support address over there, I clicked the Help button but nothing happen.)

BTW, I tried AventureMail.com this week, it's good, 2Gb storage, but.... "The page can not be displayed.." periodically. :^(
Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:40 PM by Scott Allen

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Anything with Spy in the name just makes me a litle bit cautions..... :)
Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:43 AM by Roy Osherove

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colt: as usual : YMMV - for me it seems to work just fine. but thanks for sharing!
Thursday, June 10, 2004 12:58 PM by Rachel Reese

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spymac's pretty cool. the site is a little slow, and I haven't had a chance to seriously get into the email, but the gallery/blog/web space features are a cool extra.
Thanks for the heads up about it. :-)
Thursday, June 10, 2004 4:46 PM by Steve Hiner

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While I wouldn't say Gmail is the best webmail interface I've ever seen, it certainly has some really cool features no one else has. One thing I really like about it is that it's super fast. The conversation threading is pretty cool too and the interface has some cool innovations.

You really should take RohanD up on his offer. I'd offer you one of my invites but RohanD beat me to it.
Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:24 PM by Colt

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Roy, I'm glad (and envy) that you do enjoy the SpyMac services. :)
I still don't have a chance to taste the large-size free email service (neither SpyMac nor AventureMail).. If anyone can give me a try (invitation) on GMail, then I'd greatly appreciate. :-D
Friday, June 11, 2004 2:22 AM by Roy Osherove

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ok ok ! If anyone has an invite for me I'll give GMail a try. We'll see if it's that good an alternative. RohanD - that means you :)
Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:24 AM by TrackBack

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Friday, July 09, 2004 1:33 AM by Jim

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I had a problem initially with Spymec--it was VERY buggy. Trying to sign up was a real hassle with its server consistently giving me errors. Maybe they have since fixed things, but my initial impression was very, very bad.
Friday, August 25, 2006 4:15 AM by Luciano Evaristo Guerche

# A GMail alternative, today

GMail is annoying. In fact, it is very annoying. the “Wer'e cool” bunch have decided