haldoor: the road is long, with many a winding turn (johnny-ew no)
haldoor ([personal profile] haldoor) wrote2006-08-26 10:23 pm

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.

[identity profile] jack4will.livejournal.com 2006-08-26 11:23 am (UTC)(link)
*hugs hard* I hate netscape. Depending on your area you might want to find a better service. As for just email that depends on what you like. I use gmail for most of my pics that I get from my family since it will save them in jpg image instead of bmp. Yahoo has good mail too. Though once in awhile yahoo and lj have troubles. Though LJ is fixing the bug they got but its slow going.

[identity profile] haldoor.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for your comments! I'm sorry I've been slow to reply! But have myself sorted. I have a new yahoo.com.au e-m now and am most happy ;-)

[identity profile] jack4will.livejournal.com 2006-09-01 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
*huggles hard* Tis all right. I know how it can be with real life. *hugs again*

Glad you got it sorted girlfriend.