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Lifer
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I never use my yahoo account anymore (gmail now), but I logged in the other day to look at an old email and was invited. I thought it was pretty cool, but a bit slow. There are some features, namely the tabbed emails, that I wish gmail would put in.
 
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Cristatus

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You have to sign up for the invitation, IIRC.

edit: just checked my Yahoo mail, and I also got invited.

Yea...those ads on the side are very annoying. I think they've increased the amount of ads in this version. And they're trying to use any blank spaces as ads...not good:frown:
 
BoomerD

BoomerD

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Been using it for about a week...OK, maybe better than the OLD yahoo mail, but I still prefer Gmail...EXCEPT that I'd like to see gmail add the option for folders like Yahoo did...nice to be able ts save email in specific folders...
 
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GeneValgene

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Originally posted by: BoomerD
Been using it for about a week...OK, maybe better than the OLD yahoo mail, but I still prefer Gmail...EXCEPT that I'd like to see gmail add the option for folders like Yahoo did...nice to be able ts save email in specific folders...
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aren't labels basically the same thing as folders?
 
BoomerD

BoomerD

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Yeah, I suppose so...I prefer cataloging them separately for my convenience, but I guess it all works out the same...
 
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Cristatus

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Originally posted by: GeneValgene
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Been using it for about a week...OK, maybe better than the OLD yahoo mail, but I still prefer Gmail...EXCEPT that I'd like to see gmail add the option for folders like Yahoo did...nice to be able ts save email in specific folders...
Click to expand...

aren't labels basically the same thing as folders?
Click to expand...

Lets say you have a box of everything in your house. Now label them, according to rooms, for example.

Now, instead of labelling them, put them in different boxs, for example, again, according to rooms.

What do you think is easier?
 
BoomerD

BoomerD

No Lifer
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That was kind of my thinking, but you DO have the option to seardh by label, so it still works out about the same...
 
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HN

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Originally posted by: logic1485
Originally posted by: GeneValgene
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Been using it for about a week...OK, maybe better than the OLD yahoo mail, but I still prefer Gmail...EXCEPT that I'd like to see gmail add the option for folders like Yahoo did...nice to be able ts save email in specific folders...
Click to expand...

aren't labels basically the same thing as folders?
Click to expand...

Lets say you have a box of everything in your house. Now label them, according to rooms, for example.

Now, instead of labelling them, put them in different boxs, for example, again, according to rooms.

What do you think is easier?
Click to expand...

um, in email they're not physical objects, just links. so once you assign them a label, it's the same as putting in a folder because they go to their own page. http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5561/label8ym.jpg
so if i tag any of my emails "dellf", they'd all go in that "dellf" folder/label (i wouldn't really use a label named "new label sample1". that was just for example :)


for those not wanting to wait for an invite, do this:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/get-yahoo-mail-beta.html
 
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Mani

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Wish Gmail had that layout. Thta's gotta be my only frustration with Gmail - it's like they tried too damn hard to be different with the interface.
 
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torpid

Lifer
Sep 14, 2003
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Don't like how you have to auto preview a message to mark it as spam.

I don't really see much benefit to the new version. Seems like pointless fluff so far.
 
Nithin

Nithin

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Originally posted by: HN
Originally posted by: logic1485
Originally posted by: GeneValgene
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Been using it for about a week...OK, maybe better than the OLD yahoo mail, but I still prefer Gmail...EXCEPT that I'd like to see gmail add the option for folders like Yahoo did...nice to be able ts save email in specific folders...
Click to expand...

aren't labels basically the same thing as folders?
Click to expand...

Lets say you have a box of everything in your house. Now label them, according to rooms, for example.

Now, instead of labelling them, put them in different boxs, for example, again, according to rooms.

What do you think is easier?
Click to expand...

um, in email they're not physical objects, just links. so once you assign them a label, it's the same as putting in a folder because they go to their own page. http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5561/label8ym.jpg
so if i tag any of my emails "dellf", they'd all go in that "dellf" folder/label (i wouldn't really use a label named "new label sample1". that was just for example :)


for those not wanting to wait for an invite, do this:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/get-yahoo-mail-beta.html
Click to expand...

not exactly. in gmail you can give a mail more than one label.
for e.g i give mails with photos a label of photo. if its a huge file i also give it label big.
now this email will show up under both labels.

you can't do this with folders.
 
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Cristatus

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Originally posted by: Nithin
Originally posted by: HN
Originally posted by: logic1485
Originally posted by: GeneValgene
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Been using it for about a week...OK, maybe better than the OLD yahoo mail, but I still prefer Gmail...EXCEPT that I'd like to see gmail add the option for folders like Yahoo did...nice to be able ts save email in specific folders...
Click to expand...

aren't labels basically the same thing as folders?
Click to expand...

Lets say you have a box of everything in your house. Now label them, according to rooms, for example.

Now, instead of labelling them, put them in different boxs, for example, again, according to rooms.

What do you think is easier?
Click to expand...

um, in email they're not physical objects, just links. so once you assign them a label, it's the same as putting in a folder because they go to their own page. http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/5561/label8ym.jpg
so if i tag any of my emails "dellf", they'd all go in that "dellf" folder/label (i wouldn't really use a label named "new label sample1". that was just for example :)


for those not wanting to wait for an invite, do this:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/04/get-yahoo-mail-beta.html
Click to expand...

not exactly. in gmail you can give a mail more than one label.
for e.g i give mails with photos a label of photo. if its a huge file i also give it label big.
now this email will show up under both labels.

you can't do this with folders.
Click to expand...

That is what I meant with my boxes example. I don't know how it works at the moment with e-mail, but if you want a copy of an email in a folder called big, and a copy of the same email in a folder called photos, you can't do that.

In my example, you'd have to have two beds, and only then can you put one in each room, but with labels, you can label one bed as each of your kids' beds (assuming you have at least two kids)

I don't if this is getting more confusing or what. I am getting kind of :confused:'ed
 
Nithin

Nithin

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logic, i agree with you. i was replying to HN's post that labels and folders are the same.
 
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