I just discovered this morning that Google Mail sucks. There's so many annoying and stupid things on this page that it gives me a slight eye twitch.

I discovered it because I tried to send a tgz of a directory under /etc to someone with a Gmail address. I'm fairly certain there were no .exe's there, so I can only assume that they are filtering #!shebang files as well. Personally, I feel that if they are going to be this stringent in their big-brothering, they ought to block images (buffer-overflow anyone?) and most especially PDF, cause hey, that's executable code. Oh, and let's not forget URLs, since email often contains links to malware.

Anyway, I guess I should take it for what it is: a reminder that free email hasn't changed much in the last decade: suckage with a bigger inbox.