BBC: War rages over webmail’s future

Anonymous Patron writes The BBC reports that a war has beeb declared;an email war that is. The battleground is e-mail, a service which, for many, virtually defines their online existence.

Some of the web’s free e-mailers have been around for years, but 2004 promises to usher in a new era entirely.

The battle began when Google revealed its own service, Gmail, and the implications could hardly have been more far-reaching.”