Advice Please!
Ok, I've decided that I don't like gmail. I really don't like the fact that it doesn't have folders. In addition, it doesn't upload images properly--My grandma sent me a forward where images were embedded in the text and they all showed up at the end rather than throughout the message. I forwarded the message to my hotmail account and voila! No
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But anyways, I use Gmail for all the important, business-y accounts, alchemy and what not. Sofya actually doesn't like it that much, but not because of its functionality, she seems to agree that it gets the job done rather well. But she's a graphic designers and she thinks it looks way too plain (for some reason I like the way it looks though).
The labels, in my opinion, are an utterly superior system to folders. We are able to easily classify each submission based on several different criteria, instead of just one, and then bring up only the categories we are looking for (so if we wanted to see, for instance, only poems, we can use that label and all the poems come up (though actually we don't really sort by genre, but this is just an example), then we can see all the other labels next to the title, which allows us to see which poems have been processed, which have been accepted, which are pending, which are rejected, and which still need a reply. If we want to spend the day replying, we can pull up the reply label, and all the messages that need one, in all genres, will come up.
I don't know about the images though. If a correct narrative image sequence is very important and Gmail doesn't allow it (I wonder why not, I should do an experiment), you may be right to ditch it, but hey, don't knock it just cause of that (and I am sure there is a way to do it, though it is a crime that they don't automatically have support for it)!
Gmail is still one of the most functional systems out there so far. It runs super fast, has pretty much everything integrated into one (I think pretty elegant) interface (google docs and chat for instance), and is run by google, which at the moment (this may change in the future, I guess, who knows?) is one of the few large computing corporations that I truly have respect for (they seem to make actual, honest to goodness contributions to both mankind and Open Standards, as opposed to Microsoft's racket).
Honestly, Yahoo mail isn't bad either. I have not used it for a while, but from what I recall, it was very solid. A bit too susceptible to spam, perhaps, but that's only my impression from back then. I used to frequent shady gamer site back then, what with ROMs and Emulators and the Nintendo, so I may have been bringing it upon myself.
Ooooh, another thing I just discovered that's super cool is if you have your own server, you can create your own mail account! I finally decided to try this out after almost a year of renting the darn server. I set up an editor@alchemyreview.com account! How cool is that. I am also considering alekssamoylov@alekssamoylov.com! How is that for weird symmmetry! But that's completely beside the point, since you really probably don't want to be buying a domain and renting a server just to run a cool email address off of. But really, it is SOoooooOO coool.
Anyways, this is a long comment. Sorry...I...I have trouble sometimes. Trouble stopping. You know.
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