More GMail observations

More on GMail: I've had some further opportunity to play with GMail and continue to be impressed with the overall elegance of the system. While some have raised concerns about accessibility and privacy, I'm willing to accept that this is a beta product and an opt-in service and wait to see what the final version(s) looks like before nailing it to the cross.

In general, once you become accustomed to GMail's organizational metaphors (no folders, for example, but a labelling system and robust keyword searching), you want the rest of the world to work that way too. My company's internal webmail application feels like stone tools by comparison and although I've been using Eudora on the desktop in more or less the same fashion (little rigid organization but using the search facility extensively), Google's approach just feels a lot more intuitive and usable.

The ads don't bother me or intrude in the least.

They've begun phasing in support for Safari, too, which rocks my socks. It's not perfect but, hey, beta. (The opening screen still claims "Gmail does not currently support your browser" but if you click through to "sign in anyway", most of the features — including keyboard shortcuts — work just fine.)

Finally, today I received my first and so far only piece of spam at my GMail address (after posting my address here three days ago). It was not automagically filtered into the spam box.

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