Talk:Gmail/Archive 12

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Reverted deletion of "Dots in usernames" section

Hi, all. I just reverted an edit made early this afternoon by 205.167.120.201 that deleted the information about dots in Gmail usernames. I ran a search of the Gmail Help Center, and this is all correct information, so it should be in the article. Since the dots are a similar feature to "Plus-addressing", which is in the article and was not touched, I put the dots section back. Let me know if I shouldn't have done that. -- Tuvok^^{Talk|Desk|Contribs} 03:23, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

I think we should incorporate the fact that you can add the plus sign (+) and the minus sign (-) to your GMail account and that it would have the same effect as the dots.

--Vvuser 14:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

This definitely belongs in the article. — Omegatron 15:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Competition s/b impact on the community

As a person who was constantly deleting messages from my Yahoo Mail account for fear that my 3 MB would fill and new messages would stop being delivered, the following text seems like it would be more appropriate under a section about Gmail's impact on the webmail community, than it's competition:

"After Gmail's initial announcement and development, many existing web mail services quickly increased their storage capacity. For example, Hotmail went from giving some users 2MB to 25MB (250MB after 30 days, and 2 GB for Hotmail Plus accounts), while Yahoo! Mail went from 4MB to 100MB (and 2 GB for Yahoo! Mail Plus accounts). Yahoo! Mail storage then proceeded to 250MB, and finally, in late April of 2005, to 1GB. These were all seen as moves to stop existing users from switching to Gmail, and to capitalize on the newly rekindled public interest in web mail services. The desire to catch up was especially visible for MSN Hotmail, which upgraded its e-mail storage erratically from 250 MB to the new Windows Live Mail (beta) which includes 2 GB of storage over a number of months. In August of 2005, AOL started providing all AIM screen names with their own e-mail accounts with 2 GB of storage. Another example of competition came from 30Gigs who were offering 30 gigabytes of storage, and was also invite only, but now offers free accounts for anyone." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DigitalEnthusiast (talk • contribs) 01:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC).

Google Mail

When using Gmail with Hebrew language, the title and logo are also "Google Mail". Should this be noted? Psychomelodic User:Psychomelodic/me 14:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, sure. —Nightst a llion (?) 20:04, 28 December 2006 (UTC)