So I got a Gmail account. My first thought is, why do I need another webmail account? I’ve already got half a dozen of them. Another one with 1000MB of space isn’t going to make much difference. Only that I might need it if I were to need to receive a large digital picture remotely.
Gmail makes it difficult to delete. They are big on archiving. Some messages I might just want to delete for forever. It does take an extra step to do this. Move to trash. Then delete for forever. And you have to search for it. Mostly you just see “Move to Archive.”
Threaded messages are nice. Replies and things like that really show how the conversation is going on it. So that you don’t just get part of the story.
I’m not so sure Google really should get into the webmail business. Time and time again it has been shown that Webmail is not a money maker. Produces more headaches than dollars. 1000MB is nice. But I don’t think it would stop traffic.