From presenting threads in info-burying manner, to packing the 'sent' folder with stuff you can NEVER move elsewhere, to limited search/filter capabilities: SUCKAGE.
Somehow... I don't think I have a gmail account. I sign into igoogle and google+ with my cox.net email address. It's possible that I had one and initially signed up with it but then changed it to my regular email address and then forgot all about it, but that still means that you don't *have* to use gmail.
Have you seen yahoo's new webmail redesign? What do you think of that?
I'm on G+ and YouTube. The only email addresses I'm able to get the system to acknowledge when setting up new accounts there is a gmail one. Maybe you fall through some crack because you have some prior pointer to another address. Like you're grand-fathered in. For new accounts on new services, T.S. iirc they didn't used to be so all "gmail only" about things on their various services in years past.
I don't use yahoo, not familiar with it. I hate webmail across the board and try to avoid it whenever possible, except through my own server's webmail if I really must have remote access.
If anyone writes you at G+, it goes to your gmail account, as do all the notifications and things generated by the traffic on that system. So no, you are compelled to use it if you are using G+ in any active manner at all.
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-text ads only, not full screen like yahoo
-can forward other accounts to it through POP (can't do that with hotmail)
-built-in chat program, works as long as you have a window open
-searchable email, and lots of custom options that you can turn off!
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I think it blows chunks.
From presenting threads in info-burying manner, to packing the 'sent' folder with stuff you can NEVER move elsewhere, to limited search/filter capabilities: SUCKAGE.
It doesn't meet *my* needs.
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Have you seen yahoo's new webmail redesign? What do you think of that?
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I don't use yahoo, not familiar with it. I hate webmail across the board and try to avoid it whenever possible, except through my own server's webmail if I really must have remote access.
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At any rate, you could just have the gmail account to sign up for those things and then not actually use it, right?
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So no, you are compelled to use it if you are using G+ in any active manner at all.
Feh.
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