GMail

Just got a GMail account a couple days ago. The great people over at the Daily Gadget had a contest giving away ten invites to try out the service. I happened to have one of those invites. So I now have an address, cbulock(at)gmail.com. I'm not so worried about the spam I will get by posting that here since the spam filtering is supposed to be great. I'm not sure exactly how I will use this address since I am used to getting my e-mail in my Opera e-mail client. Going to a website to retrieve my mail seems like extra steps I wouldn't want to take. Maybe I will figure out some use for this account though. I mean, it does have a gig of storage. I was thinking, it would be great if I could upload all of my currently archived e-mail from my PC to the GMail service. I have all my e-mail back to 2000 stored in my Opera browser right now. If I could upload all that (it's certainly not a gigabyte of e-mail even though it's been accumulating over a number of years), I could then use the nice search and organizing features that GMail offers. If I could start now and be able to use that will all of my current e-mail, maybe then I would find that GMail has a lot to offer for e-mail organization.