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Gmail Improves

July 20, 2004
Gmail has only been around for a few months and already its improving. Recent features include the ability to import contacts from Outlook and Yahoo as well as the ability to add an autosignature. Finally there is support for the Safari browser that runs on the Macs OS X. In a recent article about Gmail, I put my Gmail address on the internet to see how good Gmails spam filters are. That was on June 1st. Since that time only a few spammers have found me and Google has successfully put their messages into my spam folder. Not one reached my inbox. The only consequence of publishing my Gmail address was that a few people from Europe (at least that is what their messages claim) asked me ever so politely if I could invite them to have a Gmail account of their own. Here is an example: