Since this past weekend, I've tinkered a bit using one of Google's Gmail e-mail accounts to see what all the hype was about. They've got some good ideas, but it's nothing revolutionary. Their mail filters for auto-labeling have a looooong way to go before they're truly useful. I'll stick with Thunderbird for now as my main mail client, which at least has some useful filters for auto-cagegorizing my mail (and I get a TON) as well as having a pretty-good SPAM filter (for the stuff that makes it past my first tier of defence, InfoWest's Postini filtering).

Hopefully my several "feedback" messages to Google won't fall on deaf ears and they'll make Gmail actually useful. If they do, I'll switch all my mailing list mail to Gmail and continue using my existing e-mail addresses as I do now for real stuff.