[Sussex] what if ?

[Mike Diack]

Alan - just out of interest - how are Google picking their people for gmail 
testing?
Is there a page you can register interest at?
Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan F" <alan at slug.greenmeads.co.uk>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Sussex] what if ?


> On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 10:08:03PM +0100, Nicholas Butler wrote:
>> Google never intended to offer everyone and his uncle a Gb of email ?
>> what if instead they wanted to make it seem they planned this, and then
>> after all the hue and cry of the competitors they pull out , leaving all
>> their competing search engine players overburdened with a product
>> designed to compete with vapour ware marketing ?
>>
>> or am I living in the 80's
>>
> Very devious :)
>
> Well, as for most people on this list, we wouldn't care because we're 
> geeky
> enough to run our own mail services. Speaking of gmail, I got a free 
> invite
> an hour ago, and as far as webmail goes it's GREAT. Really fast, nice 
> clean
> interface, and as you'd expect the search features are very flexible. I 
> read
> an article saying the spam filter wasn't too great.
>
> Oh, and, I learned some interesting stuff today not worthy of its own 
> message :)
> I found a remote crash in my favorite p2p client, now I know what a NULL 
> pointer
> in C is, and I learned how to write simple proof of concept code in perl 
> (which
> I kept between myself and the developer). He was able to fix it within _10 
> minutes_
> of me reporting it, which confirms to me that OSS developers in general 
> are
> much better at responding to bugs than commercial vendors.
>
> I'll stop boring you all now :)
>
>
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