reviews.designtechnica.com— Designtechnica compares ten different webmail services and provides highs and lows for each one. Among the services compared are Gmail, .MAC, Yahoo! Mail and Hushmail.
Apr 13, 2006View in Crawl 4
A little biased:"Yahoo! has been around forever and so has their free e-mail service. If you?re looking for great SPAM protection and an easy-to-use interface, Yahoo! is a great choice""Microsoft?s offering of e-mail is known as Hotmail, and there is a reason why you should avoid it: Hotmail is a mediocre e-mail service that will get the basic job done while doing nothing else."Hotmail predates Yahoo! Mail (as a site, not as an MS endeavor) as far as I can remember and has always been free. Hotmail has spam filters just like Yahoo! and it's not like any webmail is *difficult* to use. Granted I was none too pleased when MS purchased HoTMaiL but I've kept it for the past 8 years or so and really didn't have any issues once they implemented spam filters and I set them up. Decent review but I just hate when biased opinions come through so clearly.-commiecat
Ok, this is lame.This is a brief description of a couple of web mail offers out there, nothing else. I don't see a comparison. There is little explanation into the differences or similarities of yahoo and gmail for one. Not only that, the guy gets a couple facts wrong - and states opinions at that. Having a hotmail account, just sitting there, usually will not get you spam. Try it. He is right about hotmail in general though, it is pretty aweful. Also, gmail does not offer "unlimited" storage, I understand why he thinks it's unlimited, but if he is writing an objective review, he shouldn't just add some kind bias to his review.Another thing that I found annoying - he picks a few things from each service to talk about, but does not compare each thing from each service to each other. An example: So and so's interface is clean and ad free while so and so's interface isn't. I don't think he even talks about yahoo's here.
I've had gmail for quite a while now and sign up for pretty much everything with it, and I've gotten less than 10 spam emails in my inbox. Compared to a few hundred in the spam folder (which are all actually spam) every week, that's pretty good.
I don't think the article is nearly detailed enough considering how long these systems have been around. As I'm sure most people know, the cool features are the ones that don't appear on the help pages.btw, sup Mega if your seeing this! Go ArsTechnica! ;)
you know you're not wanted when you ask for someones email address and they say its trashmail. I can see this email address getting free advertising in romantic-comedy movies.
That wasn't helpful or informative. Is there a decent free service that allows Thunderbird (or other client) to access it via POP? I would really like to use my own local mail program, rather than a web based one, but haven't found anything suitable.
tingleApr 13, 2006
Good read for beginners just starting out webmail. A few errors such as "unlimited storage" for gmail. Etc etc
commiecatApr 13, 2006
A little biased:"Yahoo! has been around forever and so has their free e-mail service. If you?re looking for great SPAM protection and an easy-to-use interface, Yahoo! is a great choice""Microsoft?s offering of e-mail is known as Hotmail, and there is a reason why you should avoid it: Hotmail is a mediocre e-mail service that will get the basic job done while doing nothing else."Hotmail predates Yahoo! Mail (as a site, not as an MS endeavor) as far as I can remember and has always been free. Hotmail has spam filters just like Yahoo! and it's not like any webmail is *difficult* to use. Granted I was none too pleased when MS purchased HoTMaiL but I've kept it for the past 8 years or so and really didn't have any issues once they implemented spam filters and I set them up. Decent review but I just hate when biased opinions come through so clearly.-commiecat
surrealApr 13, 2006
Ok, this is lame.This is a brief description of a couple of web mail offers out there, nothing else. I don't see a comparison. There is little explanation into the differences or similarities of yahoo and gmail for one. Not only that, the guy gets a couple facts wrong - and states opinions at that. Having a hotmail account, just sitting there, usually will not get you spam. Try it. He is right about hotmail in general though, it is pretty aweful. Also, gmail does not offer "unlimited" storage, I understand why he thinks it's unlimited, but if he is writing an objective review, he shouldn't just add some kind bias to his review.Another thing that I found annoying - he picks a few things from each service to talk about, but does not compare each thing from each service to each other. An example: So and so's interface is clean and ad free while so and so's interface isn't. I don't think he even talks about yahoo's here.
ranferiApr 13, 2006
yeah, I was going to point out the "unlimited storage" thing. Well, Gmail "almost" give us unlimited storage. They rock!
brandizzleApr 14, 2006
I've had gmail for quite a while now and sign up for pretty much everything with it, and I've gotten less than 10 spam emails in my inbox. Compared to a few hundred in the spam folder (which are all actually spam) every week, that's pretty good.
grendeltApr 14, 2006
Yeah, I'm self-promoting, but it's on topic and not going to create any financial gain for myself.Just thought someone may find it useful.
Closed AccountApr 14, 2006
I'm sorry but this is not a good article. Especially with errors like Gmail being unlimited storage,,, Since when? Where are the comparisons?
compismyrxApr 14, 2006
Technically, while the storage is not unlimited, it grows daily, so if you wait long enough, you can have extra space.
underlokApr 14, 2006
I don't think the article is nearly detailed enough considering how long these systems have been around. As I'm sure most people know, the cool features are the ones that don't appear on the help pages.btw, sup Mega if your seeing this! Go ArsTechnica! ;)
miaowApr 18, 2006
you know you're not wanted when you ask for someones email address and they say its trashmail. I can see this email address getting free advertising in romantic-comedy movies.
mydiggnameApr 24, 2006
That wasn't helpful or informative. Is there a decent free service that allows Thunderbird (or other client) to access it via POP? I would really like to use my own local mail program, rather than a web based one, but haven't found anything suitable.