Have you checked any of the labs features in Gmail also – You’d be pleasantly surprised. Hotmail can’t do half the stuff Gmail can do. So far I find Hotmail is great for users who have difficulty changing habits (from Hotmail). Enjoy your ads and junkmail by going back to Hotmail!

All this BETA lark, too…it seems it’s “cool” to be in BETA, haha.

I do agree on both sides of the coin – web based is the way to go for portability but at the same time you want to have copies backed up and that’s why I use Outlook in conjunction with Hotmail. Outlook connector allows me the flexibility to download my emails to my laptop HD and at the same time, they remain ‘backed up’ on Hotmail’s server and available to retrieve regardless of where I am. You can then back up the emails to a portable HD if required once you have them downloaded.

I guess everyone has different preferences based on uses and needs and mine is to access to my email both via the web and on my HD.

Great article though regardless of preference!!

You pointed out yourself it’s still a BETA, and it’s free. So why are you moaning? Considering I have never had any “lost” emails, and the spam settings have always been fine for me, why pay?

I read something about that somewhere. Why anyone would use such a service is beyond me.

I have been using my local ISP for e-mail service since the beginning. There is no server outages except on the occasion were upgrades need to be made. Spam is not an issue.

I use a program called MailWasher and that resolves any spam issues that I have and those are few and far between. Our ISP has a spam filter which can be turned owner off and I have never needed to use it.

About the only reason I can think of for anyone to use Gmail is because it’s a peer thing. The commentator suggested that he was considered to be slightly off the mainstream because he decided not to use Gmail anymore.

That has to rank right up there with the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in my life and I am just about as old as dirt.

Peer pressure and political correctness will destroy us all. We were sheep before the ridiculous concept of political correctness reared its ugly head and now we are blind sheep. We are so blind that we have become lemmings and will simply walk off the cliff in lockstep under enormous and extremely foolish peer pressure.

Come on people, wake up. Do your own thing and don’t worry too much and don’t spend too much time peering over your shoulder to see if it’s okay to do what you are doing.

Maybe some day we all can see the “Gmail Disaster” (that’s what people are calling it, right?) and stop using it. Even a little bug can be a huge tragedy, and they won’t fix it.

I have heard that even though you delete an email, it’ll ALWAYS be on the GMAIL server.