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Gmail vs. Hotmail

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Yahoo is good, particularly with the increased capacity (which is plenty for me); but they took away the ability to edit HTML in email directly, which sux.

GMAIL is great if you are unconcerned about personal privacy (i.e. stupid).

Hotmail/MSN is pretty good. Interface is ok compared to Yahoo. Where is this capacity increase? I have MSN Premium (free from Verizon) and am stuck at 25MB. One thing I frickin' HATE is the fact that when you click links from Hotmail it takes you to a page with a stupid frame. Sheesh that sucks. And I don't like MS tracking the sites I visit!
 
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Those who have had the pleasure of using Gmail will probably agree that it is 10x better than Hotmail. What I'm wondering is what Microsoft is going to do to keep millions of users from switching?

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WE NEED A GMAIL MESSENGER!!!
 
Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Most Hotmail users will still probably keep their accounts for things like MSN Messenger.
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You can register your gmail account as a .net passport and use that for MSN Messenger.
 
I'm planning on keeping my hotmail account active, but all my new contacts will be made through gmail. I don't mind checking both. Hotmail is dragging their feet though.. where's the 250MB already ???
 
Originally posted by: Sultan

WE NEED A GMAIL MESSENGER!!!
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Google has a news page (which is better than everything else), a newsgroups page (courtesy of DejaNews.com), e-mail, and a price search engine. Sooner or later they will keep on adding on until they rival Yahoo...
 
GMail is so fast.

When you post on craigslist and are bombarded with 150 e-mails inquiring about a position, gmail sorts everything into one e-mail so you can reply to all in a sinch.

Hotmail would take 2 weeks just waiting for each fvcking e-mail to load and to send.

Viva la Gmail.
 
GMAIL is great if you are unconcerned about personal privacy (i.e. stupid).
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So gmail has targetted ads. I would say that's a lot more useful than the useless ads (and pop-up windows for some) that I see from hotmail and yahoo.

Okay, so gmail's systems scan my emails. Big deal! A computer reads my emails. If I'm using a free email service where all my emails are kept on their systems anyway, what sort of privacy am I really expecting? It's plaintext email for goodness sake! If someone was really interested in my email, they'd have no trouble reading it no matter what service I use.

If you're really concerned about anything reading your email, GPG encrypt it first.

I don't love gmail. They have faults, like slow service at times and overly eager spam filters. But it's still alot better than the other services I've used.
 
Originally posted by: ghostman
GMAIL is great if you are unconcerned about personal privacy (i.e. stupid).
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So gmail has targetted ads. I would say that's a lot more useful than the useless ads (and pop-up windows for some) that I see from hotmail and yahoo.

Okay, so gmail's systems scan my emails. Big deal! A computer reads my emails. If I'm using a free email service where all my emails are kept on their systems anyway, what sort of privacy am I really expecting? It's plaintext email for goodness sake! If someone was really interested in my email, they'd have no trouble reading it no matter what service I use.

If you're really concerned about anything reading your email, GPG encrypt it first.

I don't love gmail. They have faults, like slow service at times and overly eager spam filters. But it's still alot better than the other services I've used.
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I agree. I think anyone who is worried about a computer scanning their email is the stupid one.

However, why does your sig have a Hotmail email address? 😛
 
Gmail is still not ready. It freeze sometimes and attachments needs to be uploaded twice to go through (and its realistically ~7mb per email).
Anyway, im gona keep both.
 
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
They will start offering more space (they already have). It will be like MHZ wars... GMAILs 1GB is its selling point, but the lack of spam and responsive servers are what really makes it > hotmail. MS will have to address those issues too if they want to keep users.
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Exactly. Gmail actually has a feature where you can report spam. So its like one big spam fighting network.
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The downside to user-spam reporting is that legitmate, requested newsletters and/or messages can be mislabeled as spam. (i.e. user requested it, the newsletter gets sent, spam complaint made, newsletter loses hosting and/or ability to host listserv.)
 
Originally posted by: Hossenfeffer
Originally posted by: Dissipate
Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
They will start offering more space (they already have). It will be like MHZ wars... GMAILs 1GB is its selling point, but the lack of spam and responsive servers are what really makes it > hotmail. MS will have to address those issues too if they want to keep users.
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Exactly. Gmail actually has a feature where you can report spam. So its like one big spam fighting network.
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The downside to user-spam reporting is that legitmate, requested newsletters and/or messages can be mislabeled as spam. (i.e. user requested it, the newsletter gets sent, spam complaint made, newsletter loses hosting and/or ability to host listserv.)
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True, no big deal for me though. I just check my spam folder on occasion.
 
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