Author |
Message |
Ryanc829
Member
05-09-2004
| Friday, August 20, 2004 - 4:26 pm
Just got my account today thanks to ab online acquaintanc. Any other TVCHers have an account?
|
Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, August 20, 2004 - 4:38 pm
Gmail scares me. Here's why: --No human reads your email to target ads or related information to you without your consent. --delivering targeted related information (such as advertisements and related links), --Google may share cookie information among its other services for the purpose of providing you a better experience. For example, you may use your Gmail account to access other Google services such as Google Groups or Google Answers. We may also use the cookies to collect aggregated information about the use of Gmail to maintain, analyze and improve the service. But I guess it's like hotmail and yahoo and other free email services but this one I'm not so sure about. The computers are reading and storing your info so they can target you for ads and other stuff. I have enough sites targeting me and putting mallware on my puter, don't need another site doing it and I don't like the idea of not deleting your emails or a computer deciding how to group them and store them, etc.
|
Draheid
Moderator
09-09-2001
| Friday, August 20, 2004 - 5:59 pm
From what I have heard, the 'advantage' to G-Mail is the amount of space allowed for incoming e-mails. 1,000MB (1GB) is a lot of space. However, Yahoo recently increased their accounts to 100MB, Excite is in the process of upgrading to allow 125MB, and Hotmail now offers 250MB per address. I have been very happy with the service at all 3 of these overall, but my favorite even though they offer the least storage, is Yahoo. I do have accounts at all 3 for various reasons, and find Yahoo much easier to use and more reliable when sending attachments. JMO - FWIW
|
Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, August 20, 2004 - 6:57 pm
Maybe Ladytex will come along and comment. She is the one who talked me out of it. I agree with Draheid that a Gigabyte is a HUGE amount of e-mail space, probably more than you will ever need. I kinda think the 100 MB I have now at Yahoo is more than I will ever need, and I am just delighted to have it. I have never tried Excite e-mail, but have had both Hotmail and Yahoo. I hated Hotmail and have since given it up. I love Yahoo.
|
Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Friday, August 20, 2004 - 7:16 pm
There are serious privacy issues concerning gmail for me. Not only do they read your email to target ads to you, they also keep your email on their servers even after you've deleted it. They say that only computers scan your email, but then they admit that there is human intervention to "censor or adjust certain keywords". One concern is that since google is a search engine and they are storing and indexing your email, can someone find it on their webpage with good enough searching skills?
|
Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 5:57 pm
I put in another thread hubby and i have been using gmail for a while now and we both love it! We've never gotten any spam or anything else. Plus the space of 1 gig is useful for me because SIL sends me pics of Sierra that are HUGE! Then I have to resize them. But at least I don't have to worry about the size of them now.
|
Graceunderfyre
Member
01-22-2004
| Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - 6:25 pm
you know, I decided to swallow it and pay $10 a month for a website plus $8 a year for the domain. then I use incredimail to check all my hotmail/yahoo/my domain accounts and say to take it off the server inbox after 1 week. so if i need it on the server, i go in and move it to a different box. and if i need the info on my pda, normally it's within the week so i don't miss out. i know there are problems with incredimail, but for now, it serves it's purpose. also, it has a great feature that with a click of a button i can block and bounce an email, so i really have cut back on the amount of junk mail i was getting. . . it's like 1 maybe 2 and that's between 3 hotmail/yahoo accounts. Gmail scares me because I don't want anyone knowing where I go (my nasty habits are my nasty habits) it's big brother watching. . . I don't even like the GPS on my pda, but it does come in handy when dialing 911 so I leave it be.
|
|