Review

Google Mail: Virtue Lies in the In-Box - David Pogue
New York Times - May 13, 2004
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/13/technology/circuits/13stat.html (subscription required)

"Even in its current, early state, available only to a few thousand testers, Gmail appears destined to become one of the most useful Internet services since Google itself. ... Gmail is infinitely cleaner, faster, more useful, more efficient, less commercial and less limiting than other Web-based e-mail services. Once Gmail goes live, Hotmail and Yahoo won't know what hit them."