Yahoo! Mail Superior to Gmail ?

ynotme writes "In his column, Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal writes that the new Yahoo! Mail beta provides a superior webmail experience to Gmail. Some quotes: 'The new Yahoo Mail is far superior to Gmail. Yahoo more closely matches the desktop experience most serious email users have come to expect ... Gmail has none of these new, fluid, desktop-like features ... Google's engineers have decreed that familiar email practices are no longer useful, and have substituted approaches they prefer, arrogantly denying users any choice.'"

Comments

Re:Linkage?

[Geoffreyerffoeg]

Log in to your Yahoo! Mail account and click What's New. From there you can sign up for the Beta, and they'll eventually upgrade your client. It's a random beta.

So..

[heavy snowfall]

This sounds like some of the critisisms that Linux software devs/power users get a lot of, being elitist, arrogant and not giving users a choice etc. Besides the original article being a troll, it's overlooking the main point: If you like yahoo's interface, go with yahoo, if you like google's interface then go with them. They're both free for chrissake... Same goes for linux apps too, and while gnome are a bit arrogant about the whole spatial nautilus thing is true, you can allways choose not to use it, like I do. Nobody is telling you what to do!

Re:Seriously?

[bn557]

3 steps is too many, yes, but not bad to keep the UI clean.

1. Click Message
2. Click More options
3. Click Trash this message

alternately:

1. Check Message
2. Click More Actions... drop down
3. Select Move to Trash

I prefer Yahoo! Mail

[rg3]

Mostly because of one important feature, which is AddressGuard. Sure, both Yahoo! and GMail spam filters do a nice work. However, that is a "new" approach and it's what makes me not to receive any spam at all. You have an explanation here:

http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools?tool=3

And a Flash animation/tour/explanation at the end of that page.

Re:don't forget

[carl0ski]

Don't forget the sub-address support.

I sign up to almost all online things with
example for my slashdotaccount

carl0ski+slashdot@gmail.com

a + symbol and any string can be added between you gmail account name and the at symbol.

They are vaild addresses an delivered to you.



In my case i use them for security purposes, suspect sites i use carl0ski+spam

as my address.
then filter it straight to trash :)

Hasn't anyone tried Goowy yet?

[windowpain]

Goowy mail is pretty good. You don't have to beg for an invitation, it offers both a really cool Flash version and a stripped down version for low bandwidth connections (You select which one you want at log on). It doesn't have ads (yet) and it even has news and games if you care to click on their icons. It's a credible effort.

Best of Both Worlds

[The Wicked Priest]

This is how I use Gmail: When I'm on my Mac or my Windows laptop, or a foreign box, I use Gmail via their webmail interface. But I when I turn on my main Linux box, it fetchmails everything, and I read and respond in Pine. I generally reserve my heavy usage for these times. My fetched mail is automatically Trashed, and I clean it out the next time I connect to the webmail.

The advantages: I have a stable email address that's fairly well spam-filtered, and isn't tied to my ISP; I also get secure connections (with POP, SMTP, and HTTPS). Meanwhile, I don't have to turn on my main machine, and don't have to set up multiple mail clients, but can still get the benefits of old-school mail management while being able to access my mail from anywhere.

Re:Choice?

[Evangelion]

a) You can access gmail's mail with POP3 (you can't get at Yahoo's pop access with a free account).

b) You can read POP3 mail with a Yahoo account

So, umm, yeah, you can use the Yahoo interface to read your gmail mail.

Next.

Re:Seriously?

[turtled]

Have Firefox? Easy single click delete...
http://www.arantius.com/article/arantius/gmail+del ete+button/