Gmail: Online's Hottest Ticket

I read several articles today like this one that talk about how everyone wants in to Gmail, and they're offering about everything (including money, body parts, and more) to get access to an account. I have to admit I was curious to try it out, too. I was glad when I found out they were offering a beta account to Blogger users. I haven't really used it much yet, I was just curious to test it out and what it's all about. I've got a few of my spammier email addresses forwarded to my gmail account to test out the spam filter. So far, I'm not very impressed with the spam filter. The user interface is awesome, though. Simple and clean. No blinking ads, not a lot of links to confuse me. It's great. And who doesn't love the thought of having 1 GB of storage space! I haven't heard when gmail will be available to the general public, but I'm sure it won't be too long now. Once they open it up, I guess sites like GmailSwap.com will be obsolete, and the auctions for gmail accounts on eBay will dry up. In the meantime, it's interesting to watch people going nuts about web based email again.