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Yahoo! Mail Superior to Gmail ?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the friday-afternoon-cat-fight dept.

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.'"

2 of 574 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Linkage? by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:don't forget by carl0ski · · Score: 5, Informative

    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 :)