[Greg Ross]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

I've been using gmail for about a day now (Thanks Yan!) and I am seriously considering moving from the ChiefDelphi server to gmail. (I'd keep my chiefdelphi address, but alias it to gmail)

• Gmail is fast. Very fast.

I've rarely noticed Yahoo! Mail being slower than any of the rest of the internet.

• The Gmail interface is intuitive, and new. I like new. It has features that most other e-mail and webmail systems don't have [labels, threaded discussions, etc]

Dunno. I haven't seen Gmail's interface yet. I've never had to read a manual to figure out Yahoo!'s interface yet.

• 1 GB. I have 6+ email addresses aliased to my chiefdelphi account, and even with my absurd amount of archived spam (30,000 so far in 2004) I have yet to reach 1GB.

I was surprised, this morning when I logged in to my Yahoo! account, and saw that they were now allotting 2(!)GB for my main e-mail account, and 1GB each for my two sub-accounts.

• Decent spam filtering. It has missed 4-5, but it has caught 20-30. It has room for improvement, but it is good enough for now.

About the same percentage as Yahoo!'s spam filter does for me. If I go several days without logging in and clearing my bulk mail folder, I'll find 200 to 300 messages in my bulk mail folder, and usually less than 20 in my inbox that should have been filtered.

• Targeted advertising. Sure, its advertising, but it may provide helpful links. It's not in the way, giving me seizures, or annoying.

Yahoo! FINALLY got rid of the super annoying Flash ::shudder:: advertisements. (So annoying, that I've been fighting, for a couple months, to figure out a way to banish, once and for all, Flash player from my computer.)

• External images aren't shown until you request for them to be shown.

Yahoo! has had this option for a while.[/list]

Gmail: I like it.

Gmail: I'm fine with Yahoo! for now. (Although, when I get a chance, I'll check out Gmail.)