Editor in Chief Bill | 28 Aug 2008 8:31 a.m. PST |
Gmail? Yahoo? Something else? |
Grizwald | 28 Aug 2008 8:33 a.m. PST |
Gmail (aka Googlemail) wins hands down. I also use mail2world but it's not as good as Gmail. |
Psycho Rabbit | 28 Aug 2008 8:38 a.m. PST |
Gmail is #1 IMO I also use MSN/Hotmail Rabbit |
E Murray | 28 Aug 2008 9:36 a.m. PST |
Yahoo
it's the only one that wouldn't require me to notify everyone of my new email address |
Regrebnelle | 28 Aug 2008 10:09 a.m. PST |
I've gotten good milage out of Yahoo over the years. Never tried anyone else because Yahoo has been dependable enough. Sometimes some temporary outages, but hey it's free. Mark |
Top Gun Ace | 28 Aug 2008 10:18 a.m. PST |
Yahoo can be undependable, and if you send a lot of messages, they occasionally suspend your account, assuming you are a spammer, without any real recourse, or assistance to get the issue resolved. Gmail apparently does not, from what I have heard. |
Steve | 28 Aug 2008 10:22 a.m. PST |
Gmail. Good spam filter, plus it groups your messages together into threads. We even use it for our business as IMAP, see it both on line and in Outlook and its free. Steve |
nycjadie | 28 Aug 2008 10:57 a.m. PST |
Actually, I find the grouping of e-mails my only complaint of Gmail. It's difficult to follow a thread, which is important to me. |
Grizwald | 28 Aug 2008 11:24 a.m. PST |
"Actually, I find the grouping of e-mails my only complaint of Gmail. It's difficult to follow a thread, which is important to me." That's odd. I find Gmail makes it a lot easier to follow a thread! |
nycjadie | 28 Aug 2008 3:21 p.m. PST |
It's fine if it's a two way conversation, but often times, more than one person is responding and then the chain can get very confusing if people respond to different e-mails. I find it much easier to track in MS Outlook. |
Jay Arnold | 28 Aug 2008 10:25 p.m. PST |
Gmail. Google Documents is way too handy, as are the other functions, such as Google Maps. |
Grizwald | 29 Aug 2008 3:09 a.m. PST |
"It's fine if it's a two way conversation, but often times, more than one person is responding and then the chain can get very confusing if people respond to different e-mails." Sorry, I don't find that to be a problem at all. |
Derek H | 29 Aug 2008 3:20 a.m. PST |
Gmail. Quite the best spam filter I've ever come across. |
pigbear | 29 Aug 2008 3:56 a.m. PST |
Gmail. Everything is simple, searchable, functional. The other thing about threads is that they are represented differently what we are used to. But this is a major strength, not a weakness. And I love the visual cleanliness of Google. Hotmail is too distracting with links aching for you to follow them. |
nycjadie | 29 Aug 2008 8:33 a.m. PST |
"But this is a major strength, not a weakness." Even then, I don't foresee gmail every being used in an office where e-mail is a necessary tool. This is widely discussed in both my field and my wife's. It's nowhere near as powerful as MS Outlook or even Lotus Notes (eeeeeh). |
pphalen | 29 Aug 2008 7:17 p.m. PST |
Neither of which are free
I still primarily use my yahoo account, but am getting increasing annoyed at their droppages and their, "I'm sorry, we cannot currently access your account messages
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nycjadie | 29 Aug 2008 9:54 p.m. PST |
Very true. They aren't free, but Outlook comes with most PC's and I use my personal e-mail accountt as a POP server for Outlook. |