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Gmail Takes Largest Webmail Service Crown

Posted by Unknown on from the nsa-scheme-proceeding-as-planned dept.

redletterdave writes "After several years of dominance, Microsoft's Web-based email service, Hotmail, has been unseated by Google's significantly younger webmail service, Gmail. Google announced it had about 350 million monthly active users in January; since then, that number has ballooned to 425 million." Remember when people ran their own mail servers?

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  1. Re:Yeah, I remember. It was a pain. by hobarrera · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, nowadays spammers have a much easier job, they just send you "trojan.zip", and say "here's your photos from tokyo last night". People still download it and and run it.

    As long as people unwilling to use their brain exists, spammers will always find a way to exploit them.