What is gmail?

I feel like I’m missing some important piece of information. As if I’d just awakened from a coma and found the world was mostly the same and unchanged, only with new confusing additions…like Gmail! So what is it?

It is Google’s free webmail service, currently available via invitation only. They give you 1000MB of storage and advanced searching capabilities to go through all your old stuff. In exchange for this, they display contextual ads (hopefully) related to the content of the mail you’re reading.

If you want an invite, let me know. I’ve got a bunch of them.

Anyone read this? Any comments

Well, here’s one opposing opinion:
http://www.aplawrence.com/Reviews/gmail.html

Make up your own mind, I guess.

Since this is a question with a factual answer, I’ll move it to General Questions for you.

Cajun Man
for the SDMB

Friedo,

If you are serious about the invitations I would like one. You can email me from my profile.