Yahoo Mail beta

[tirsden]

I like it! If anyone is looking for a new mail service I highly suggest trying the new Yahoo Mail beta version. It's free and you get like 1gb of space to store email (I have used a whopping 4% since I joined with my main account and half of that is from mailing myself large graphic-laden zip files recently). Anyways, the whole thing is better organized and optimized for high-speed internet (I imagine the fanciness would lag on a low-end computer and/or internet connection). I know several of my friends are already using Yahoo but if you chose to stay with the pre-beta version I suggest checking out the beta anyways, you can always switch back.

Plus you can add blogs as RSS feeds and the RSS feeds folder will have a shiny little sun on it when there's new posts. I added Luddite Geek since he's over at Blogger.com, and it works great. From catching up on reading his posts I present you with the following priceless quote:

"I'm not queer or anything, but I really want to invite my buddies over for a shower."
~ Luddite Geek, 9-2-2006 http://ludditegeek.blogspot.com

Comments

[l-u-d-g-e.livejournal.com]

Glad you like the quote! :) And I'm glad you like my blog enough to subscribe! Don't worry -- it's very low traffic. :)

I like Yahoo Mail, too. They only recently increased it to 1GB when Google came out with Gmail. But I like Yahoo Mail better than GMail.

The problem with Gmail is that it will block lots of messages that have attachments. I once tried ZIPping the contents of a directory at work so I could copy it to my home computer, synchronize my two computers. But I never even got it. With Yahoo, there's no such problem.

Of course, you might say that this is a problem with Yahoo because it won't protect you from malicious attachments. So maybe if you're a newbie, use Gmail. If you're a power user, go with Yahoo. Yeah.

BTW, I haven't dissed Gmail on my blog, which is hosted by Google. I thought about it. But I don't believe in "biting the hand that feeds me."

[tirsden.livejournal.com]

I think Yahoo was like 500 megs before the jump to 1gig... and it was still way more than I needed. But I like the 1gig concept and 10mb max file attachments if I ever need to mail myself something large.

Yeah I tried Gmail a while ago and didn't like the whole forum-esque setup.

Heh, well Conan bashes NBC all the time and they haven't fired him yet! XD