Hrm.

[tiamatlady]

Question, for the geeks, especially those using Gmail.

I'm considering transitioning my Yahoo mail account, to Gmail. it would do two things - one, ditch 99% of the spam I'm getting, despite Yahoo's great spam filter (which I download to my computer anyway, because it catches too much, and then use the much more intuitive Thunderbird filters) and two, get me away from Yahoo, which is ever increasingly being censorist and annoying. I'm not liking what I'm seeing them do, I'm not liking some of the dumbing down, and I'm ESPECIALLY not liking paying for the privledge of downloading my email via POP. Gmail does all that, and more. More people seem to be on it, more people USE it on me, and I would also be able to start really divvying my work and home lifes, as I have My.i.name at Gmail dot com, and LJ name at gmail dot com. I would need to keep Yahoo active until I'd changed everything, and my renew date is upcoming.

So I'm going to pay the bastards for this year. But in that year, I'm going to transition, by moving all the mailing lists as they come in, and any other emails I get, like renewals that only come once a year, that kind of crap.

My question to you geeks - is this wise? Yahoo has been very stable, and Gmail has been, from what I hear, flakey. Both have web interface, but that doesn't matter since I got the Laptop. (which I love more very passing day, as I watch my "acquired" Tudors from bed. Yay.) and Gmail is the better animal for the conversations, built in chat, and let's not forget free.

Ok thanks. I really should get some work done....

Comments

[oscuridad.livejournal.com]

I had a massive problem with spam at my Yahoo account, so I got a Gmail account and it's been really good so far. It did filter out one automated notice when I ordered something online, but I got it out of the junk mail folder and it's been fine since then. I've been actively using the account for about a year. I was getting 10 spam messages per day on yahoo to an address that wasn't even actually mine, it was one that I had used with geocities, before geocities was bought by Yahoo...anyways, I think your plan is pretty good.

[tiamatlady]

Oh it's huge, and I have major issues with wasting my time on it at home. Thankfully, Thunderbird has handled most of the issues. I *heart* Thunderbird. I can't believe I resisted the lure of Mozilla for so long.

I do have mailing lists though, which I've actually done more sending to Gmail, and having it forwarded to Yahoo, but then Thunderbird downloads it all so I get it 8 times.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of taking "business" to the my name, and "nonsense" to my LJ name. So when I'm, say, having issues with a credit card account, I can stop having to spell things "No, it's T-I-A... what? what is it? An ancient Babylonian dragon goddess who tried to destroy the world...Hello?"

*snerk*

[mizdarkgirl.livejournal.com]

1) I like the gmail forward feature. I forward all my gmail accounts to one central account, rather then signing on & off. When I was transitioning, I forwarded my gmail to hotmail account.
2) I hardly ever get spam. But that could be that I don't use my account on any lists.
3) I like gchat. It works like AIM in my mail. No client to load.
4) I like my shopping list
5) I like my photo album
6) I hate that it tracks my search history. So I turned that off.
7) I like the label concept. I use one account as a recipe database.
8) I like that I can very easily search my mail.
9) I like that I can share documents

And did you see this on Yahoo?

[mizdarkgirl.livejournal.com]

http://consumerist.com/consumer/yahoo/watch-your-mouth-on-yahoo-answers-or-theyll-delete-your-email-and-website-251871.php

Re: And did you see this on Yahoo?

[tiamatlady]

That's what finally cinched it.
I'm not going to be doing something and suddenly have Yahoo decide they don't like it. NOT if I'm paying them for the privledge.

Yeah it'll get around my pesky no-AIM at work as well.
Hrmm.