Every system have fails Shantara, gmail isnt free of fails at all, since its beta version, but they are working to solve these kind of problems, i didnt read you article but i believe it said something about hackers getting access to your mailbox in gmail or something like that. But i still believe its a great mail system, much better than the others what i saw around the intenet.
@Seth - about copy the stuff to cd, they took away the writer(CD-rw) here.
