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Man, why fix what ain't broke?
Bloody Netscape, in their infinite wisdom have decided we all must now access our e-mail through AIM. I already HATE it.
Now I know my Netscape service is limited and boring and I can't do heaps of flash things with it, but honestly, do I care? "No" is the answer, plain and simple. All I want is a place to collect my messages, send my messages, simple and without fanfare.
I understand they NEED advertising to survive, but do they need that much, taking up all the space? Before, I only got one row of it at the top, and maybe another when the screen came up to tell me my message was sent. Now I get them everywhere.
This in favour of reducing my available viewing space of "how many e-mails do I have sitting there?" to about 6 instead of most of the page, annoys the crap out of me. Bastards.
*sigh* So I've been with netscape since forever and it's time I moved on, right? Yup, I think so. I can use the yahoo.com.au one I set up when my daughters set up theirs, or I can look for another to suit. The hassle of changing everything over is the big pain, but I guess there's no hurry. I can run the two until it's all to my satisfaction.
My main criteria are:
1/ Ease of use
2/ Number of e-mails I can see in my list to be attended to at once
3/ Small amounts of advertising
From there, all is cool. I know I'll barely use half the functions, so space is no biggie either (they increased my available storage space from 250MB to 2G -or whatever the hell it's called, who remembers?), but since I'm currently using about 6MB, I really don't think that's an issue. *snort* And that's their big drawcard to flash in front of me *snorts more*
If anyone has any suggestions, let me know, but methinks I'll go for the easy option unless I am totally swept away by something else in the meantime.
Now I know my Netscape service is limited and boring and I can't do heaps of flash things with it, but honestly, do I care? "No" is the answer, plain and simple. All I want is a place to collect my messages, send my messages, simple and without fanfare.
I understand they NEED advertising to survive, but do they need that much, taking up all the space? Before, I only got one row of it at the top, and maybe another when the screen came up to tell me my message was sent. Now I get them everywhere.
This in favour of reducing my available viewing space of "how many e-mails do I have sitting there?" to about 6 instead of most of the page, annoys the crap out of me. Bastards.
*sigh* So I've been with netscape since forever and it's time I moved on, right? Yup, I think so. I can use the yahoo.com.au one I set up when my daughters set up theirs, or I can look for another to suit. The hassle of changing everything over is the big pain, but I guess there's no hurry. I can run the two until it's all to my satisfaction.
My main criteria are:
1/ Ease of use
2/ Number of e-mails I can see in my list to be attended to at once
3/ Small amounts of advertising
From there, all is cool. I know I'll barely use half the functions, so space is no biggie either (they increased my available storage space from 250MB to 2G -or whatever the hell it's called, who remembers?), but since I'm currently using about 6MB, I really don't think that's an issue. *snort* And that's their big drawcard to flash in front of me *snorts more*
If anyone has any suggestions, let me know, but methinks I'll go for the easy option unless I am totally swept away by something else in the meantime.
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Glad you got it sorted girlfriend.
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porne-mail and shut the hell up!" doesn't it?I have e-mail addresses all over the place that I use for different things. Hotmail for me has some advertising but it lets you change how many e-mails you get to see at a time and has more storage than I ever need. The perk that I like is that if you use it for MSN it will give you little notes at the bottom corner of your screen that you are "receiving mail from kaige68@hotmail.com". It has it's moments when it doesn't want to play nice, but they are few enough for me. The spam filter is not spectacular and it doesn't let you set the color. Those are honestly my only issues with it.
If Yahoo has advertising I don't notice it. Yahoo (if you are signed into YIM) is the one that pops up with the little line in the corner that says "From:Kaige Subj:Jeremy is...REALLY happy to see you", and you know how much I need that! Storage is more than I need. It lets you change the appearance slightly to colors that may appeal to you and it will allow me to start typing in the To: field and show me the list of people in my address book that match the letters typed (which is why I don't remember e-mail addresses anymore :)). I have to say that it's rare for it to not play nice, but on the occasion that it doesn't work, it doesn't work for HOURS. It's got a better spam filter than hotmail.
Gmail is on par with Yahoo. Again if there is advertising, I don't notice it. I don't use the account much, it's basically what I use for online/catalog shopping. It doesn't ever pop up and tell me that I have new mail, but it's simple to use, it's good with spam, and I can see my whole inbox on one screen.
Good luck!
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for a browser I switched to firefox cause we have more important things to look for on the web than spend out precious time waiting for pages and what have you to load ;P
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