Thats cute.. I paid for premier and I don't have any ads and didn't need to tell my friends about catastrophic events. $50 per year is definitely worth it.
Especially considering that having the link advertisements is essentially my payment for the gmail service. If you don't think it is a good deal to receive the gmail service in exchange for having to have the advertisements of the page (which you don't have to look at), you don't have to use gmail.
Ha! Not sure what my mom would think if I sent her an email with suicide in my signature. Plus, Google does crawl your emails, any concern that if you consistently use "bad" keywords it might alert the Black Helicopters to come swooping down and nab you? :)
This is so wrong, but somehow, morbidly amusing. I certainly don't think the adds are obtrusive enough to have my sig read "suicide death 9/11 murder", but each to his own...
Thunderbird seems like a more elegant, cheerful solution.
What you'd really want to do is work the advertisement extermination into the body of the email inconspicuously. Say I'm mailing my friend Katrina about a concert I'd kill for tickets to--I make an offhand reference to the financial crisis, a tsunami of corporate catastrophes, how the markets quake in fear of another fiscal tragedy. Just like that, an advertisement genocide. I'm sure it'd soon become as natural a way of writing as e-prime.
How am I supposed to include the catastrophic event reference in a corporate/business mail?