gmail love

evenwolf · Sun 29/04/2007 22:46:37

This thread is a place to reflect experiences with gmail since it began a few years ago. The reason I pose the topic is this: today I realized I have hotmail and yahoo accounts. Haven't checked those in ages! I log in to hotmail. My account is deactivated, all messages gone. I log in to Yahoo. Same.

And I don't care! I had never thought to check the accounts because they were so inferior. Had redirected everyone (hopefully) a while back. I'm so happy with gmail threading and every other feature. Yahoo and Hotmail were so dull and uncompetitive. Google you don't sell out, and for that I will always love you.

-Jesse

Dan_N · Sun 29/04/2007 22:52:37

Well, Google are evil, but yeah, their mail rocks in comparison to yahoo and such...

MrColossal · Sun 29/04/2007 22:55:45

Before people start freaking out of google stealing your internet through Gmail I just want to say that I also love gmail.

edit: DAMMIT

I'm just curious if anyone who uses yahoo or hotmail really enjoys having all those ads and headlines from MSN stories all over the place, or a constant button to check my credit score on yahoo?

Google is just so simple and nice.

Darth Mandarb · Sun 29/04/2007 23:00:43

I have the new Yahoo! Beta mail ... it's not as full featured as Google, but on the surface I like the display/layout better. It's far superior to Google's. Also, the contact details for your contacts are better as well.

That being said, I still use my gmail for 99% of my emailing. It is far superior in almost every aspect. Labels, spam detection, threading, etc. Yahoo! may look better ... but I'll take the functionality of gmail over a pretty interface just about any day!

I actually stopped using my twin-design (company) email address. Just had it route through gmail instead. Filters out all the spam. It's glorious!

Tuomas · Sun 29/04/2007 23:05:20

Quote from: MrColossal on Sun 29/04/2007 22:55:45
I'm just curious if anyone who uses yahoo or hotmail really enjoys having all those ads and headlines from MSN stories all over the place, or a constant button to check my credit score on yahoo?

I still use hotmail, have used for God knows how long, and I'm very happy with it. I'm so used to the ads all around I don't even notice them, that is if they are anywhere. Really the one thing that irritates me is the very small size restriction for attached files. I can't send two songs. And it tend to block some files, and sometimes it has problems with Finnish letters such as Ã¤ and Ã¶, and that messes up all my mail. Thankfully of the 10-15 mails I recieve per day most come to my uni account.

Now I have gmail too, but I always found it very hard to log into it, dunno why, hotmail just has the msn button you can just push and voila.

InCreator · Sun 29/04/2007 23:07:05

Ahh... But nothing beats having your own serverspace and self-defined e-mail accounts. I will never, ever return to casual free e-mail system.

No ads, no spam, no long-loading startscreens, no worries.

Nikolas · Sun 29/04/2007 23:21:29

Yahoo, get's around 15 spam everyday in the spam folder
1 spam in the inbox every week
all normal e-mails come to the inbox

hotmail gets 1 spam per month and if so, and that in the spam folder

smartmail (from my site) get's 4-5 spam per week, all in the inbox. Never had anything in the spam folder. Most e-mails I get are market like *SPAM* but are not! (I mean how on earth can you mark *SPAM* an -email called "Nikolas, can you assist in the compositional process of..." or something simmilar...

I had and have gmail, but never used it for mail issues. Just can't get used to it.

Other than that, I was always using yahoo to do my searching, but when I switched to firefox it can with the google bar, which I tried and was lovely.

Evil · Mon 30/04/2007 05:14:07

Quote from: InCreator on Sun 29/04/2007 23:07:05
Ahh... But nothing beats having your own serverspace and self-defined e-mail accounts. I will never, ever return to casual free e-mail system.

No ads, no spam, no long-loading startscreens, no worries.

As nice as everyone claims gmail is, it is true that nothing beats your own server space. On an application, your own website email looks so much better than a gmail or yahoo mail.

LGM · Mon 30/04/2007 05:42:32

gmail is pretty respectable, though...

a.edmark@gmail.com? Yea, he's awesome. Let's hire him!

Evil · Mon 30/04/2007 05:48:57

I feel that andrew@aedmark.com is much more respectable than a gmail account. Plus, who puts a period in their email? DUMB!

Darth Mandarb · Mon 30/04/2007 08:20:57

Quote from: Evil on Mon 30/04/2007 05:14:07As nice as everyone claims gmail is, it is true that nothing beats your own server space. On an application, your own website email looks so much better than a gmail or yahoo mail.

I still give out my business email address ... but I have it forward to my gmail account. This way, the spam gets filtered out for me. It's amazing. The last time I went on vacation (before I had gmail) when I got back I had about 250 spam messages cluttering up my inbox. This last cruise I went on (a few weeks ago) ... when I got back I had ZERO!! That's right ... a big goose egg of spam messages.

So while a yourname@yourdomain.com might look better ... nothing beats less spam.

Babar · Mon 30/04/2007 12:31:47

I have a hotmail, yahool and gmail account. I've had the first for too long to want to give it up now. I kind of like the idea that 20 years from now, if hotmail hasn't sold out or shut down, I would still have the same email.

I don't really email all that much, so the actual benefits or disadvantages of one over another usually pass over my head, but I love the way gmail says "Hooray! No more spam"

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evenwolf · Mon 30/04/2007 14:27:59

For the first year I received absolutely NO spam in my inbox with gmail. Then I started getting a few of the same sort. Then a couple weeks later, No spam again! Gmail must have fixed it that quick.

I agree that having your own space is nice, but I'm no webmaster. Ive had organizations where I had my own webmasters but they NEVER ever EVER did anything, so most of the time having that jesse@organization.com email was a crutch because it didn't even work. You seriously have to pay webmasters to update anything because the people (3 or so) ive dealt with were only motivated to be called "webmaster" and nothing else.

Yahoo and MSN, no matter how good they are with spam, ads, and space now.... would never have upped the ante if Gmail hadn't entered the arena and challenged them. Remember when Gmail offered a gig of space? MSN and Yahoo weren't even competing for customers. They offered like 10 megs or something just pitiful. You would have to clean out your inbox every other day so as not to be threatened by MSN to be shut down.

Love Gmail! And what's evil about Google? They refuse to give your search information to the government at least

P.S. because I hopped on the boat so early I got my "middlename@gmail.com" & my "lastname@gmail.com" I didnt bother trying to get my firstinitial.lastname etc.....

Timosity · Mon 30/04/2007 14:58:27

I just use my email from my ISP and use Thunderbird, it's got a good junkmail filter that learns as it goes along

monkey0506 · Mon 30/04/2007 20:46:04

I think the biggest Yahoo! Mail account I had prior to getting my Gmail was only 4 MB. But then that's what got people so worked up about Google in the first place. "1 GB for email? Never delete an email again? Archiving? What the hell can this all mean!?! It's the end of the world I say, the end of the world!" - Bill Gates

About the only real problem I've ever had with Gmail is that you can't put underscores in your address (or at least you couldn't, I don't know if you can now). So my long-term online alias of monkey_05_06 was modified to monkey.05.06 for my Gmail account.

I remember the first time I heard about Gmail...I was watching TechTV (now G4TV) and the show had a spot about it describing the current features (this was back when Gmail first hit the scene). I was excited about getting an account until they said that the BETA was by invitation only. A few weeks later a thread showed up around here for giving away invitations and my Gmail account was born!

Regarding the show I was watching though...I remembered something else they talked about during that episode. That was the same time period that Bill Gates was proposing e-stamps on emails. A $0.01USD charge would be Bill-ed to your account for the stamp which would then allow the email to be sent. The "reason" for the stamps would be to ~~give Bill the rest of our money~~ prevent spam.

Thank goodness that Google saved us on that one. Once people started getting Gmail accounts spam was no longer an issue. I get about 1 spam message every month or two that gets around the filter, but then I just report it as spam and never have to deal with it again.

And I haven't deleted an email in ages. I have 1907 messages in my inbox (165 of which are unread, but I know what they all are (Happy Birthday from Forum X, new message on MySpace, Birthday eCard from my mom, etc.)). My oldest unread message dates back to 14 February this year. My oldest read message dates back to 11 September 2004.

P.S. Will Gmail ever leave BETA stages? Will the amount of allotted space ever stop increasing? ~~How much does each user's allotted space increase each second?~~ It appears to be 5 bytes (0.00000476837158203125 MB) per second.

m0ds · Tue 01/05/2007 00:21:24

I always wanted a gmail email address. But then I got one with @googlemail.co.uk and I was highly dissapointed.

Glad you're enjoying it though Evenwolf!!

Hotmail Classic isn't that bad. I get very little spam nowadays and I've had the address 6 or 7 years. All the ads don't bother me much either, when I use Hotmail I normally use it for about 20 seconds! LUCKILY the design hasn't been changed much at all so it's just a familiarity thing I think for me

evenwolf · Tue 01/05/2007 01:02:24

Yeah man. I can't go back, not unless they've introduced the thread feature.

In my film organization I would send out mass emails every week, so instead of getting a bunch of scattered messages the replies were neatly lined up in a thread. That's really the basis for my support. That was really really big for me. Can't go without it now.

voh · Tue 01/05/2007 19:04:10

I've been using my own server for email ever since I got into the hosting biz (which was... 2001), so while I do have a gmail account, I've never logged into it other than that first time, and I read out the address through POP3. Amazingly enough, I've since removed that account, because I could never get myself to use a gmail account since I've got a hostvoh.net account, which just rocks so much more to me

Becky · Tue 01/05/2007 19:12:06

QuoteI always wanted a gmail email address. But then I got one with @googlemail.co.uk and I was highly dissapointed.

I have a @googlemail.com address, and I just tested and if you use the same name but with @gmail.com at the end it still works. Though if they change it in the future so it doesnt it may not be reliable.

Mozesh · Tue 01/05/2007 22:29:46

Googlemail works fine, if you ignore the spam. Personally I think hotmail is a lot better, but hey, that's just me.

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