will gmail last?

[Bar...@gmail.com]

Is there any guarentee that Gmail will last past the beta stage? is it
a reliable email account for forwarding my school account to after i
graduate? just wondering if anyone knew

thanks
Bari

[Fanis Hatzidakis]

I doubt anyone here will tell you that with 100% certainty. All anyone
can say (unless they have inside knowledge of things) is that Gmail
seems to be here to stay. Google has been working on Gmail for a while
now, it has a money-generating schema, it's rather popular, and it's
being integrated with Google's other products (such Google
Desktop/Taskbar, Picasa, Personalized Home Page).

Fanis

[G.Waleed Kavalec]

I forward copies of my gmail to an outlook account and archive it in a .pst file; 
but then I'm paranoid.

  ;-)

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[Jim Barr]

I speculate that Gmail will last. I also speculate that eventually,
Google will offer a for-pay version. They'll likely continue to provide
a free version because the targeted ads do make money for them.

To hedge my bet, I too backup all of my Gmail messages. I have an
always-connected PC at home set up that pulls in all new messages to
Thunderbird twice per day. I then periodically archive the files
locally. It's really a nice way to provide some "offline insurance"
should the worst happen...

-Jim
http://GmailTips.com

[Hex Star]

As others have already said, I'm sure Gmail will be here to stay and I certainly hope so too because I haven't thought to backup new email as it arrives to a computer and at this point in time it's too late since I have over 17,000 emails archived :-p ;-) :-)

[Shawn Honnick]

There are only two guarantees in life. Gmail is not one of them. I predict they will have an upgraded version in the future that includes many features people will find valuable enough to pay for.

On 12/5/05, Bar...@gmail.com <Bar...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Rick B.]

I'm curious about that too...

I posted a while back, wondering when gmail will begin charging for
this...

3 gig, with data compression, is a good thing obviously, but I do feel
in the long run, they will offer a "pay segment" for extra
services...down the road.

I do hope the e-mail stays free though...so far, so good.

[Shane]

G.Waleed Kavalec wrote:
> I forward copies of my gmail to an outlook account and archive it in a .pst
> file;

Why do you forward to it to another account, wouldn't it be easier to
just have Outlook use POP to connect to GMail and download a copy of
all your mails?

[G.Waleed Kavalec]

(blush)

Actually that's what I do, it had just been a while since I set it up