>Firstly, Gmail's success is entirely predicated on the health of the global email ecosystem. It absolutely does not. It is so large now that what the parent p

>Firstly, Gmail's success is entirely predicated on the health of the global email ecosystem. It absolutely does not. It is so large now that what the parent poster said is the real case. It has such dominance that people are pressured to switch to Gmail or Google apps to get stuff reliably delivered to the massive percentage of email users. This is exactly like an IE6 PM coming on extolling the virtues of open standards and how they are critical to the success of internet explorer. Seriously think about it (assuming you are even posting in good faith). If Gmail's success was "entirely predicated on the health", do you really think Postmaster tools and other interoperability efforts would have so little investment?