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Gmail is certainly the most rapidly innovating email service out there. Gmail now allows users to create a Google Docs document from an email message that they received. The rationale for this feature according to Gmail engineer Jeremie Lenfant-Engelman is:

More than once, I’ve had a conversation over email and later realized that the information contained in the messages would make a great starting point for a document. So I built an experimental feature for Gmail Labs that does just that: with one simple click, "Create a document" converts an email into a Google Docs document.

No more copying and pasting the text from your email — just open the message you wish to convert, click the "Create a document" link on the right side of the page, and voila, you have a brand new document which you can then modify and share!