Not really, portability was not easy to accomplish back then when you were constantly shifting between work stations and different setups. Even to this day, I

Not really, portability was not easy to accomplish back then when you were constantly shifting between work stations and different setups. Even to this day, I don't know of an easy way to switch between fresh devices all the time and use a "real" email client. I don't see the problem with someone preferring gmail - personally the +suffix tagging was what I still use to this day.