Marc Hughes wrote:
Comparing it to a gmail account, it's the development time that's an issue. Google has spent a lot of time, and a lot of money getting a solution as good as gmail is.
Agreed that "blowing away gmail" is shooting way too high. I'd envisioned it as more of addressing the "I love gmail, but I wish it would do THIS", serving ONLY on a small, focused community of users (i.e. a LUG). The searchability etc. offered by gmail is going to be tough to match, but I suspect there are some interesting things that could be done with bayes etc. as individual sub-projects that would be interesting enough.
To date, I've never used a better email client whether web-based or not. Just whipping together free software will not give an equivilant solution.
Agreed. I see challenges on multiple levels. Which is exactly why I see it as a possible GROUP activity, where hopefully everyone's focused on the parts they enjoy. - Bob