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3 Email Chiefs Come to Dinner
Carl Bialik writes "The heads of email from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft all recently went over to Wall Street Journal columnist Lee Gomes's house for dinner and conversation. Gomes has an interesting writeup of the conversation that transpired. The meal started as a lovefest for Gmail and Google's Paul Buchheit, with Microsoft's Kevin Doerr (no relation to the venture capitalist) and Yahoo's Ethan Diamond 'agreeing that much of the current excitement in the email world can be traced back to last year's debut of Mr. Buchheit's Gmail.' But Gomes adds, 'Whatever early lead Gmail may have had in creating a next-generation email program, both Microsoft and Yahoo have more than caught up. I wondered out loud to Mr. Buchheit if Gmail, the pioneer, might now be falling behind. "There is a lot more we want to build," he responded.'"
I still use Yahoo for all of my spam and I love it for that. It hasn't changed much over what it used to be.
You haven't seen their new beta. It's AJAX based, and allows drag and drop --- all in all, it's a lot like using a desktop client (like thunderbird) in your web browser.
Actually, this is already possible. Any email that is of the form myname+stuff@gmail.com will go to myname@gmail.com. So, you can use myname+spam@gmail.com for all your untrusted sources, and just myname@gmail.com for everything else. Then, filter on the To: line and apply appropriate labels, and voila! Problem solved.