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[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4
I'm paying $30 a year for Yahoo email (which I can't even use here on Anandtech Forums, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:|:|), but I really like it.

A free google account sounds even better.

You ought to be fired for that you dumbass

??? What's wrong with Yahoo? I've had a free account with them forever and I needed more space so I paid to upgrade. Nothing wrong with that if I like their service. It's reliable and I can access it from anywhere including my PDA.

That's like admitting you pay for Hotmail.

Edit: As an AT employee, you should know better.

Known better than to pay for a service that I like? That's like saying that I shouldn't buy a Toyota b/c a Kia will get the job done for less money.

But why don't you use the Anandtech mail, or your own domain's mail for the same price (or cheaper)? Why buy the Toyota when you can get the exact same one for free?

 

[KingNothing]

Originally posted by: wyvrn

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4
I'm paying $30 a year for Yahoo email (which I can't even use here on Anandtech Forums, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:|:|), but I really like it.

A free google account sounds even better.

You ought to be fired for that you dumbass

??? What's wrong with Yahoo? I've had a free account with them forever and I needed more space so I paid to upgrade. Nothing wrong with that if I like their service. It's reliable and I can access it from anywhere including my PDA.

Maybe the fact you can get a cheap or free (1and1.com) hosting account that will do the same thing for MUCH less. You can access pop anywhere you can use outlook express or similar free email client (pegasus). I *think* lots of pda's and phones also have pop acess too, but not sure since I haven't checked email on my phone in a year.

It'll do full text searching of e-mail with a webmail interface? No need to ever download messages off the server, excluding messages with (really) large attachments?

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4
I'm paying $30 a year for Yahoo email (which I can't even use here on Anandtech Forums, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:|:|), but I really like it.

A free google account sounds even better.

You ought to be fired for that you dumbass

??? What's wrong with Yahoo? I've had a free account with them forever and I needed more space so I paid to upgrade. Nothing wrong with that if I like their service. It's reliable and I can access it from anywhere including my PDA.

That's like admitting you pay for Hotmail.

Edit: As an AT employee, you should know better.

Known better than to pay for a service that I like? That's like saying that I shouldn't buy a Toyota b/c a Kia will get the job done for less money.

But why don't you use the Anandtech mail, or your own domain's mail for the same price (or cheaper)? Why buy the Toyota when you can get the exact same one for free?

Our Anandtech email accounts are spammed to death with bogus email. 95% of what we get on our accounts is spam.

Bottom line, I don't mind paying for a service that I LIKE, that I've had excellent reliablility with, and that I know is always in service. I like the peace of mind, and $30 isn't gonna kill me.

You guys act like $30 a year is gonna break someone. You guys need to get out more and stop arguing over something so trivial that doesn't even affect you

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4
I'm paying $30 a year for Yahoo email (which I can't even use here on Anandtech Forums, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:|:|), but I really like it.

A free google account sounds even better.

You ought to be fired for that you dumbass

??? What's wrong with Yahoo? I've had a free account with them forever and I needed more space so I paid to upgrade. Nothing wrong with that if I like their service. It's reliable and I can access it from anywhere including my PDA.

That's like admitting you pay for Hotmail.

Edit: As an AT employee, you should know better.

Known better than to pay for a service that I like? That's like saying that I shouldn't buy a Toyota b/c a Kia will get the job done for less money.

But why don't you use the Anandtech mail, or your own domain's mail for the same price (or cheaper)? Why buy the Toyota when you can get the exact same one for free?

Our Anandtech email accounts are spammed to death with bogus email. 95% of what we get on our accounts is spam.

Bottom line, I don't mind paying for a service that I LIKE, that I've had excellent reliablility with, and that I know is always in service. I like the peace of mind, and $30 isn't gonna kill me.

You guys act like $30 a year is gonna break someone. You guys need to get out more and stop arguing over something so trivial that doesn't even affect you

I am unemployed. $30 is a lot to me at the moment. Get me a job and I will stop.

 

[RabidMongoose]

I pay $30 or whatever a year for my Yahoo email, too. I don't mind paying for it at all. It's reliable and decent.

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Well the http://gmail.google.com link is showing up as a 404 for me. April fools joke, maybe?

 

[anxman69]

Not a hoax:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/technology/01google.html

-Ankur

 

[anxman69]

Oops. Hit submit twice.

-Ankur

 

[SandInMyShoes]

Knock it off... Yahoo is great for free, and the paid options are well worth the cost if you need them.

I do agree that often webspace is the best deal. For $75 a year or less you can get your own domain, and 100-350MB of storage space for all those forum images and spam emails. You have the option of POP or webmail access too. Some people simply don't want to pay that much, however.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: anxman69
Oops. Hit submit twice.

-Ankur

Copy the article. You have to register

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4
I'm paying $30 a year for Yahoo email (which I can't even use here on Anandtech Forums, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:|:|), but I really like it.

A free google account sounds even better.

You ought to be fired for that you dumbass

??? What's wrong with Yahoo? I've had a free account with them forever and I needed more space so I paid to upgrade. Nothing wrong with that if I like their service. It's reliable and I can access it from anywhere including my PDA.

That's like admitting you pay for Hotmail.

Edit: As an AT employee, you should know better.

Known better than to pay for a service that I like? That's like saying that I shouldn't buy a Toyota b/c a Kia will get the job done for less money.

But why don't you use the Anandtech mail, or your own domain's mail for the same price (or cheaper)? Why buy the Toyota when you can get the exact same one for free?

haha
our atmail is so spam laden it isnt even funny

steve go crawl back into the snow cave of yours.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: Adul

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4
I'm paying $30 a year for Yahoo email (which I can't even use here on Anandtech Forums, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:|:|), but I really like it.

A free google account sounds even better.

You ought to be fired for that you dumbass

??? What's wrong with Yahoo? I've had a free account with them forever and I needed more space so I paid to upgrade. Nothing wrong with that if I like their service. It's reliable and I can access it from anywhere including my PDA.

That's like admitting you pay for Hotmail.

Edit: As an AT employee, you should know better.

Known better than to pay for a service that I like? That's like saying that I shouldn't buy a Toyota b/c a Kia will get the job done for less money.

But why don't you use the Anandtech mail, or your own domain's mail for the same price (or cheaper)? Why buy the Toyota when you can get the exact same one for free?

haha
our atmail is so spam laden it isnt even funny

steve go crawl back into the snow cave of yours.

Don't make me kick your ass

Granted, it will take me like 11 hours to get to your place, but I can still do it!

 

[iwearnosox]

http://gmail.google.com

 

[ggavinmoss]

Totally an April Fools prank.

-geoff

 

[TheBoyBlunder]

Originally posted by: Sifl
http://gmail.google.com

Still 404'd for me.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
Totally an April Fools prank.

-geoff

hope not

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: shady06

Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
Totally an April Fools prank.

-geoff

hope not

I don't think it is.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: wyvrn
The article intimated that they may charge for "additional" services like spam protection. If that's the case, I will stay with Yahoo. They have fabulous spam protection, and the account is free. The extra space is not worth the lack of features.

Yahoo Mail has anything but fabulous spam protection. I get 300 spam mail a day. Hotmail is much improved... I get less than 10 a day. It's quite amazing, considering it used to be the opposite way around. Yahoo has gone so far downhill for me.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: TheBoyBlunder

Originally posted by: Sifl
http://gmail.google.com

Still 404'd for me.

This work ?

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: wyvrn
The article intimated that they may charge for "additional" services like spam protection. If that's the case, I will stay with Yahoo. They have fabulous spam protection, and the account is free. The extra space is not worth the lack of features.

Yahoo Mail has anything but fabulous spam protection. I get 300 spam mail a day. Hotmail is much improved... I get less than 10 a day. It's quite amazing, considering it used to be the opposite way around. Yahoo has gone so far downhill for me.

Yea, I've had my hotmail account for almost 5 years now and I still only get about 10 per week. ALthough, I do regularlly purge the junk mail list and start over every 4-6 months.

 

[Passions]

Can you imagine how many servers they need to service 1gb per account?

TOTALLY APRIL FOOLS JOKE!

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: Passions
Can you imagine how many servers they need to service 1gb per account?

TOTALLY APRIL FOOLS JOKE!

BUT! Memory is cheap, especially in bulk. It just might be the thing that puts google into the stratosphere in popularity..and it really seperates them from the other feee-mail guys

 

[warcrow]

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: Adul

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: DeathByAnts

Originally posted by: NFS4
I'm paying $30 a year for Yahoo email (which I can't even use here on Anandtech Forums, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO:|:|), but I really like it.

A free google account sounds even better.

You ought to be fired for that you dumbass

??? What's wrong with Yahoo? I've had a free account with them forever and I needed more space so I paid to upgrade. Nothing wrong with that if I like their service. It's reliable and I can access it from anywhere including my PDA.

That's like admitting you pay for Hotmail.

Edit: As an AT employee, you should know better.

Known better than to pay for a service that I like? That's like saying that I shouldn't buy a Toyota b/c a Kia will get the job done for less money.

But why don't you use the Anandtech mail, or your own domain's mail for the same price (or cheaper)? Why buy the Toyota when you can get the exact same one for free?

haha
our atmail is so spam laden it isnt even funny

steve go crawl back into the snow cave of yours.

Don't make me kick your ass

Granted, it will take me like 11 hours to get to your place, but I can still do it!

oh boy....violence over da fee-mail is get'n out od hand!

 

[Eli]

:Q

 

[Squisher]

Everything comes full circle.

I had a DejaNews email account before it was google.