Gmail vs. Yahoo

[Bharat Nain]

Now Yahoo! is giving out 100 MB of e-mail space. Thoughts?

[Yan Wang]

The increase to 100mb is perfect for keeping current Yahoo! users with Yahoo! Switching emails and the hassle that comes with it will not be worth it for most. But for those who would like a better service, Gmail will win because of it's simple but highly functional interface. I'm certainly keeping my Gmail account.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...tid=126&tid=95

[Joel J]

Google is in a position that allows it to say it'll give out as much space as you want to hear. Lets say Yahoo bumps their number up to 1GB as well. Google can turn around and say "you get 1TB of space with our service." I mean, how much of that offered webspace will actually be used? Of course, at that point there would really be a debate (or a doubling up on email accounts), because the competition would have "leveled" the playing field. Thats why Google had to start out ahead and has to keep itself ahead in order to have any hope of taking a large bit out of this already mature market. Other email services will have to give us, the users, more, or they will wither away. Thats one of the good things about a capitalist environment, I suppose: it can be made in the best interest of the no-face's to give us more. But thats just one.

The one thing that really seems to bug people about Google's service is the privacy clause in the contract users have to agree to. But to that I say, doesn't every other webbased email service have your information and emails on hand? Yes, they currently do not use it in any negative way (that we know of), but companies lie and times change.

It all boils down to alot of back and forth, cause and effect, pandora's box type thinking that clarifies itself only after an action has been taken. Carry on.

[Bharat Nain]

I also noticed how slow Yahoo servers are currently. I dont have Gmail, so I dont know how fast they are, but Yahoo is bugging me right now, ugh.

[Bcahn836]

I have had a Yahoo account for a long time now, i am kinda looking for a change and I hope Gmail and give me that change. I just want something different. So far i havn't heard any complaints about Gmail, have you?

And yes the yahoo server has been a little slow.

[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.
• 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]
• 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.
• 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.
• Targeted advertising. Sure, its advertising, but it may provide helpful links. It's not in the way, giving me seizures, or annoying.
• External images aren't shown until you request for them to be shown. I hate e-mail clients that are eager to show images. Images in email are a bad thing to begin with, and with the amount of inappropriate spam thats going around, this is a good feature.

Gmail: I like it.

[Jessica Boucher]

I'd love a gmail account...it'll be perfect to move stuff over to once I graduate.

On a related note, I saw this in the paper today and found it quite humorous

[Joel J]

Woo.. the article is about me . j/k, of course.

[Astronouth7303]

GMail. I've used Yahoo just enough to know that I'd like GMail more. I'm still waiting for an invite, though. (please?!?)

[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.)

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by gwross

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.)

It is to my understanding (I'm not using GMail, so correct me if I'm wrong) that the adds in GMail are similar to the rest of Google's adds: small, unintrusive, text only.

[Andy A.]

Yahoo is now offering, for 20 dollers a year, 2 gb of storage.

Free accounts get 100 mb.

First webmail service to offer me more storage space then my current harddrive for free wins my heart.

Now here is an interesting question. Is there any bandwidth limit on your gmail accounts? Might it be possible to host large files for ftp or some other such trickery, and use gmail as your own personal little webserver?

Come on, some one's gotta figure that one out.

-Andy A.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by Andy A.

Yahoo is now offering, for 20 dollers a year, 2 gb of storage.

Free accounts get 100 mb.

First webmail service to offer me more storage space then my current harddrive for free wins my heart.

Now here is an interesting question. Is there any bandwidth limit on your gmail accounts? Might it be possible to host large files for ftp or some other such trickery, and use gmail as your own personal little webserver?

Come on, some one's gotta figure that one out.

-Andy A.

Sorry for the double post, but so far the max. upload on Gmail is 10mb per file.

[sanddrag]

I'm not sure exactly what Gmail is but I'd have to argue that the best e-mail is paying $8 per year for a domain name and then like $2 per month for a host and then setting up e-mail accounts in CPanel and using Outlook. It is very worth the small cost.

[Yan Wang]

Originally Posted by sanddrag

I'm not sure exactly what Gmail is but I'd have to argue that the best e-mail is paying $8 per year for a domain name and then like $2 per month for a host and then setting up e-mail accounts in CPanel and using Outlook. It is very worth the small cost.

I did that for mister@yan-wang.com

It was nice, but Outlook isn't as nice as Gmail, which in itself has a beautiful interface but also one which you can check from ANY computer with internet access. Outlook is just local.

And since Gmail is free, it completely beats out paying about $30/year for my own domain & hosting.