[Joel J]

Google is in a position that allows it to say it'll give out as much space as you want to hear. Lets say Yahoo bumps their number up to 1GB as well. Google can turn around and say "you get 1TB of space with our service." I mean, how much of that offered webspace will actually be used? Of course, at that point there would really be a debate (or a doubling up on email accounts), because the competition would have "leveled" the playing field. Thats why Google had to start out ahead and has to keep itself ahead in order to have any hope of taking a large bit out of this already mature market. Other email services will have to give us, the users, more, or they will wither away. Thats one of the good things about a capitalist environment, I suppose: it can be made in the best interest of the no-face's to give us more. But thats just one.

The one thing that really seems to bug people about Google's service is the privacy clause in the contract users have to agree to. But to that I say, doesn't every other webbased email service have your information and emails on hand? Yes, they currently do not use it in any negative way (that we know of), but companies lie and times change.

It all boils down to alot of back and forth, cause and effect, pandora's box type thinking that clarifies itself only after an action has been taken. Carry on.