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  1. Re:Ads. by xession · · Score: 1 · on AOL Is Cutting Off Third-Party App Access To AIM (9to5mac.com)

    Plus, who uses AIM these days?

    No idea on the number of AIM users but I was pretty shocked to have just learned that 11 million monthly users of ICQ still exist... According to: https://corp.mail.ru/en/compan...

  2. Re:pochta.ru / smtp.ru by vbraga · · Score: 1 · on Gmail Moves To HTTPS By Default

    There's also mail.ru. English language sign up is gone, it's possible to get an account using Google Translate.

  3. Parent Article: (-1, Troll) by ezh · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Kremlin Seeks to Control Online Media
    Bloomberg, just stop trolling with your articles. All the online press that Russians actually bother reading is already licensed by the Ministry of Press, TV Broadcast and Mass Media of the Russian Federation: Same goes for the most popular blog services: None of these businesses is going to risk their investments. The irony is that it is exactly the same in the U.S. as well - big companies just support one of the two candidates and nobody cares about the smaller ones. So Bloomberg and the rest, stop scaring your people while attempting to control them. And you, /. - take note. Cheers!
  4. Re:Six months? by danila · · Score: 0, Insightful · on Google's Sergey Brin Talks on Gmail's Future

    So there's a lot of testing that google have to do, since they're breaking new ground.
    I though Google fanboyism was already passe...

    Could you tell me, what new ground exactly are they breaking here, besides writing a complex IE-only webmail application in Javascript? That's cool, but not as cool as a 5 kilobytes JS-based chess program or a first person shooter...

    1Gb mailboxes - everybody offers huge (or even unlimited - my webmail provider does it now) mailboxes now. Kudos to Google for the idea, but it's not really something very difficult to do. Dynamic folders, filters and searches? Opera M2 was here first. Check out their latest 7.5 beta, it rocks! I have 250Mb of e-mail and it has instant searches and autofill for search terms. "Conversations"? I don't have a GMail account, but is it better than Active contacts and Active threads in Opera?

    Not to mention the fact that many other webmail providers already have POP3/IMAP access, forwarding in both direction, encryption, WAP access and what not.

    So what is so new about GMail? Except the fact that it's a webmail in javascript...

  5. In Soviet Russia DSL is about $100/Gb by vvdd2 · · Score: 0 · on Have You Fought Your ISP Over Bandwidth Limits?

    In Russia typical DSL costs about $100 for 1Gb. A $30 per 1 Gb is considered EXTEREMLY CHEAP.
    This List is russian ISPs list with typical prices.

  6. Re:Other things I love about hotmail by RussGarrett · · Score: 2 · on Microsoft Opts-In Hotmail Users

    mail.ru

    Includes POP access for free, and a much nicer webmail interface than hotmail. Don't slashdot it too much, I'd like it to remain free. Please ;).

  7. No suprise - but plenty of alternatives by JohnRlI · · Score: 1 · on MS Passport: "All Your Bits Are Belong To Us"

    This should hardly come as a suprise - we all know Microsoft is as power mad as it is arogant.

    I tried to sign up for an account about a year ago. On entering my name (John Linford), I was told that I was unable to create an account with that name 'because the sirname field contains inelegible or restricted word' - I welcome any ideas as to why.

    I gave up after this, but there are plenty of alternatives - I use mail.ru, a free russian service with web and POP3 access

    If you don't like it, don't use it - that's why they give you the coice to decline.