MCBastos wrote:
1. I hate webmail.
2. I don't have a single account, I have about ten.
3. Webmail is crap. It lacks significant functionality of dedicated
clients, and it's slow.
4. No, I don't want to consolidate. I have excellent reasons for
segregating different uses into different accounts.
5. Did I mention that I dislike webmail?
A lot of the same sentiments.
I don't like web mail, and I don't like having to do email-related
functions through other web-based tools. Just because "everybody" is
doing social networking doesn't mean that I want to have all my
communications forced into web interfaces and cloud storage.
I also have a bunch of accounts, and each of them has a specific
purpose. I don't want my work mail mixed up with my personal mail, and
for a number of things, I want different identities for different audiences.
Besides functionality limitations and speed, web mail doesn't allow you
to work off-line. If you don't have an open Internet connection, then
you don't have access to anything. Additionally, with Webmail, you're
totally dependent on the provider for all the available interfaces and
tools. Thus, if the provider decides to completely rework their user
interface, it may suit whatever purposes they have, but it may
completely conflict with what you're trying to do. This is especially
true with the free services -- not just gmail, but yahoo,
hotmail/live/msn/outlook, etc., and where some of the intent of major
redesigns may be more focused on making the service attractive to new
users rather than servicing existing users.
With webmail, there is value, especially for servers that allow for user
tuning of server spam filters, or making quick checks of mail, but for
ongoing use (including permanent storage of messages), I want to be
working from a tool that's designed as a mail client, rather than
working from a web page that gives me some basic tools of interacting
with a mail server.
Smith
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