Feedback I recently sent to Gmail

[libertango]

Anyway... OK, guys, I dig the 1000MB of storage. I dig having
Google's search engine being able to search that potential archive.

But to make that storage useful *today*, and not years from now, I
really think your next step should be to develop ways to import --
*and export* -- archives from other programs into and out of Gmail.

My e-mail archives go back to 1996. They take up about 200MB of space
-- easily fitting Gmail's 1000MB. But they're in Eudora, and I can't
import them in. More than that, Eudora's search routines are clumsy
and slow. Making my e-mail "google-able" was a big attraction for me
of Gmail.

I also emphasize the ability to *export* because, in my years in the
computer business (since 1980), how much a vendor will let you *back
out* or unsubscribe from their service shows just how confident they
are of their product. Microsoft, back in the days when they were
trying to catch up to Lotus, WordPerfect, and Borland, clearly learned
this lesson in how they built their filters into Word, Excel, and
Access.

Here's a suggestion list for programs to support for imp/exp filters:
Outlook, Entourage, Eudora, Pegasus. Online services and competing
free e-mail services should be supported as well -- Hotmail,
Mailblocks, Lycos, Yahoo, AOL. For that matter, there's a *huge*
captive audience in the US military, who has a web-based program for
the Army called "AKO" (and I just sent an invite to an Army buddy of
mine).

So, I hope you get the basic idea. I'll bet it's among your Most
Requested Features, but hey... here's one more vote in the ballot box.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Yours,

-- Hal O'Brien