Spam blocking supercedes usability
June 20th, 2006People are so annoyed with spam, that they seem willing to give up usability for a little better protection. Case in point, Yahoo! Mail versus Gmail.
Interestingly, I use both services for certain things, and I have found both pretty good at filtering spam. I’ve also found both about as useable as you can expect from a webmail interface. Nevertheless, I’ll stick to POP, as I don’t really care about the storage capabilities I get from outside services. I’d rather be able to drag and drop an mbox folder to my desktop, zip and encrypt - lock it away for safekeeping, away from any potential prying eyes, but still have ready access myself.
That’s my idea of usability.
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Tags: Gmail, webmail, Yahoo! Mail |
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