The Downide of Your ISP Turning to Gmail

SlinkySausage writes "Google is offering ISPs the opportunity to turn over their entire email operation to Google, with all customer email hosted as Gmail accounts. This would allow Google to grow its user base rapidly (Google is a distant third with 51M users compared to Yahoo's 250M and Hotmail's 228M). There are some obvious benefits to end users — Google is offering ISPs mailboxes of up to 10GB per user. APCMag.com has posted an interesting piece looking at the dark side of Google's offer. Not least is in its reinforcing of the attachment people have to their ISP's email address, making it harder to change ISPs if a better deal comes along."

What's a 'Downide'?

[neoform]

Dont shash eeditors use Forefox? its gut a bilt in spellchcker..

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[The Bungi]

C'mon, how is this "dark". Nothing in TFA justifies the submission or the connotations it appears to convey. "Google might charge for the service", but all they are saying is it will be "affordable" and ISPs can request more information. Holy shit, I can see the evil oozing out of that one.

"People will have to switch email addresses" Mother of god, someone stop this company. They will be the end of us all.

Re:What's a 'Downide'?

[Joey Patterson]

I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC;
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I've run this poem threw it,
I'm sure you're please too no,
It's letter perfect in it's weight,
My checker tolled me sew.

-Author Unknown-

Re:What's 'grow'?

[Harmonious Botch]

They don't know what transitive/intrasitive verbs are either.

Re:Thin end of the wedge

[WannaBeGeekGirl]

And what happens when Google rolls out services competing directly with ISPs?

recursion and lawyers?

two things that should not be in the same phrase...

Re:Thin end of the wedge

[mrchaotica]

recursion and lawyers?

two things that should not be in the same phrase...

That depends. Does the universe kill all the lawyer processes when it runs out of memory?

Re:What's a 'Downide'?

[dattaway]

This is Slashdot. A spell checker is redundant and not needed.

me spelling checker works great need grandma chicken

Re:What's a 'Downide'?

[sheriff_cahill]

Why bother with spell checkers? They should just switch double the killer delete select all

Re:Thin end of the wedge

[User 956]

That depends. Does the universe kill all the lawyer processes when it runs out of memory?

No, the lawyer processes just terminate automatically when the universe runs out of money.

Re:I don't understand the problem.

[empaler]

And then, the question would be, would I rather have some targeted text ads around my mail, or some flashy viagra-ringtone ads.

Actually... A flashy viagra-ringtone might be useful in the trains. Then, when someone decides to test EVERY FUCKING RINGTONE on their phone, I can just call myself from my other phone. I haven't seen any viagra-ads, but if it's flashy, I think it'll shut them up.

Re:What's a 'Downide'?

[weighn]

This is Slashdot. A spell checker is redundant and not needed.

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Re:What's a 'Downide'?

[Architect_sasyr]

Funny... I must have misread that first line... could have sworn it said "I have a spelling checker" or something to that theory...

Re:What's a 'Downide'?

[risk one]

This is Slashdot. A spell checker is redundant and not needed.

And it's clear that you can't stand redundancy, right?

Re:What's a 'Downide'?

[Bob-taro]

Okay, I guess being a silly poem cop is worse than being a spelling cop, but I remembered a different version of that poem. A little googling found this:

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.