Comments | mavjop: Impressions of "GMX"

mavjop

Impressions of "GMX"

Aug 20, 2009 09:36

[Edit] I've since found out from comments that GMX is by no means new (it's popular in Germany). It is just that they came into my view by buying up a lot of advertising on Facebook.

I decided to create an account on a new e-mail service, GMX, this morning. I certainly didn't expect it to replace gmail, but I was curious to see why they thought ( Read more... )

pointless, review

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targaff August 20 2009, 18:51:09 UTC

They're pretty popular in Germany, I believe.

mavjop August 20 2009, 22:08:44 UTC

Weird. I don't know why it would be popular anywhere, given how ... just generally ungainly the whole thing is. OTOH, didn't Google have issues with gmail in Germany? Perhaps if gmail's not allowed to offer service to Germans something like this could do well. It's seriously a return to the bad old days of webmail though, IMHO.

wizzu August 20 2009, 23:21:15 UTC

I seem to recall gmx.de in a lot of (German) addresses in the past. On IRC. So my guess is that this is just an outgrowth from an ISPs own webmail service. From that they could easily have an existing user base of 11M, especially if they automatically give an email address (or ten) to everyone who's signing up with them for Internet access.

mavjop August 22 2009, 17:31:10 UTC

Ahh. :)