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By: lnxwalt

lnxwalt — Thu, 03 May 2007 22:58:37 +0000

I have since retried Yahoo’s new interface. Yikes! It is HORRIBLE! It takes forever to come up. At least it doesn’t seem to be Flash, like their new maps. The single good feature I found with new Y!Mail is drag-n-drop DHTML for moving messages into folders.

Y!Mail’s right-side ad banner sometimes crowds the actual content that you are trying to view into half or less of the screen. Perhaps it is just an advertiser’s bad JavaScript, but it makes it hard to use when it happens. Yahoo! also still has those distracting dancing cowboy ads–if you want me to respond positively to your ad, don’t make it so that your ad prevents me from paying attention to the site I’m using. That is definitely one lender that will never get me as a customer.

GMail still rules. Besides the Web interface, I also use it with Thunderbird (no extra charge), although I would really like IMAP support, so I can use the account from multiple computers. Y!Mail does not have POP/IMAP support in the free version, last time I checked.

By: Motorcycle Guy

Motorcycle Guy — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:13:48 +0000

Yeah I agree gmail is definitely stepping in a different direction. I think it eases people into a work in which they have no privacy.

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Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:58:20 +0000

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By: Mungo

Mungo — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:46:00 +0000

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ZePy - Just Short Tips » Blog Archive » Latest Google Interesting News — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:34:26 +0000

[...] Gmail: Not Behind, Just Going in a Different Direction “Has Gmail been left behind? PC Magazine thinks so… But desktop email does not represent the best or only paradigm for handling email. Just because you can now make an Ajax-based web client that feels like Outlook doesn’t mean that you should.” [...]

By: wwwnewnews

wwwnewnews — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:05:57 +0000

thanks! gmail is a very good email provider.

By: dpcough

dpcough — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:39:54 +0000

I like Gmail the best, it loads the quickest and I rather search and all the messages are organized into one.

By: betonbetts

betonbetts — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:07:45 +0000

i mean…are they really moderating our email content??? but again…doesnt hotmail/yahoo also do so?

By: betonbetts

betonbetts — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:04:52 +0000

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By: James Governor

James Governor — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:47:48 +0000

how many people use gmail? any civilians? just dorks? i am interested because i just dont know. it doesnt really do it for me although the performance is seriously impressive. and i dont like offline, but thats a differnt question

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:37:13 +0000

My yahoo forwards to my Gmail account. Thats the best thing I can think of about the yahoo interface. And this feature can’t be accessed from the new AJAX version yet!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:46:44 +0000

If I could make rules to label things based on certain criteria then I would be fine with Gmail. Until then, desktop email client for me.

By: Danno

Danno — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 08:02:28 +0000

Oh, damn, forgot three things:

1) It took too damn long for the delete button to actually get added.

2) The spam folder should NOT show you how many spam messages you have. That’s just something meaingless to attenuate to. Luckily, there’s a greasemonkey script to make that go away.

3) Mark as read kb shortcut please? Perhaps v (viewed/not viewed)?

By: Danno

Danno — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:58:45 +0000

Using other clients is painful for me since I’ve adapted to GMail.

GMail itself was never painful.

Threaded view is god.

A delete kb shortcut would be nice, but j/k plus x and the occasional mouse click isn’t that bad. Of course, I keep my inbox pretty empty, so deletion never involves going through multiple pages.