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View Poll Results: What service do you use for your primary e-mail?
GMail 60 65.22%
AOL/AIM 1 1.09%
Yahoo! 13 14.13%
Hotmail/Windows Live/MSN 6 6.52%
Work-provided 2 2.17%
ISP-provided 8 8.70%
Other (please comment and explain) 2 2.17%
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Old 08-06-2009, 02:28 PM   #41 (permalink)
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GMail wasn't initially invite-only because they wanted to be exclusive, it's because it was a beta product and they wanted to control the speed at which it grew. It's been years since you needed an invite to use GMail though, so I'd suggest trying it out
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Old 08-06-2009, 04:43 PM   #42 (permalink)
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i use Gmail, for everything - expect a few websites i signed for (for these i use yahoo), mainly because it was the first real email account i ever had, and because i haven't found another free account where i like the interface and the features.
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Old 08-06-2009, 07:50 PM   #43 (permalink)
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I have 6 or 7 addresses I think, all of them are through my two personal domains. Only two of them get heavy use though.
Have not touched hotmail in many many years, and never did have yahoo, gmail,etc.
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Old 08-06-2009, 10:41 PM   #44 (permalink)
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Odd thing, I was at gamefaqs yesterday and they had a poll exactly like this one. Their results are quite different though.

Poll of the Day - GameFAQs
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Old 08-06-2009, 11:15 PM   #45 (permalink)
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Odd thing, I was at gamefaqs yesterday and they had a poll exactly like this one. Their results are quite different though.

Poll of the Day - GameFAQs
I would imagine that those numbers reflect the hotmail/xbox live connection.
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Old 08-06-2009, 11:37 PM   #46 (permalink)
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I would imagine that those numbers reflect the hotmail/xbox live connection.
Seriously.

Their current poll is "Have you ever thrown a party in your house while your parents were away?"

I only go to GameFAQs once a year or so. I would guess that their primary demographic is 14 year old XBox Live Halo players. Like a cousin of mine. Who yells obscenities at other players through his headset microphone.
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Old 08-07-2009, 01:10 AM   #47 (permalink)
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I use Gmail partly because it has a nice interface, but mainly because it conceals your IP address so is ideal for privacy which is important for a paranoid android like me.
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Old 08-07-2009, 01:53 AM   #48 (permalink)
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Seriously.

Their current poll is "Have you ever thrown a party in your house while your parents were away?"

I only go to GameFAQs once a year or so. I would guess that their primary demographic is 14 year old XBox Live Halo players. Like a cousin of mine. Who yells obscenities at other players through his headset microphone.
Oh, It's definitely a different demographic than TFP. The Party poll was quite possibly the worst poll they've ever had on the website. According to their latest how old are you poll, like 65% are 20 and under.

I actually enjoy a lot of their polls though.
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Old 08-08-2009, 11:33 AM   #49 (permalink)
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Hi, I'm a Yahoo Mail user since high school. After reading all the raves about Gmail I decided to give it a try. I don't think I'm going back to Yahoo Mail anymore.


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Old 08-10-2009, 10:57 AM   #50 (permalink)
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Other than dial-up, Sprint (now Embarq) was, and still is, the only game in town for high speed internet. I encountered the same situation at my previous residence, so I've been with Sprint/Embarq for eight years now.

I started with their email long before gmail appeared, but I'm slowly moving to gmail.

Sprint provides terrible service in terms of reliability and is often extremely slow or down completely. Customer service is probably the worst of any large company I've ever been with.

Sprint is the Devil

Sprint sucks.

I hate Sprint.

In a future post, I'll explain how I really feel about Sprint.

Were it only that I had access to a REAL ISP.

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Old 08-10-2009, 02:56 PM   #51 (permalink)
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gmail just plain works.
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Old 08-11-2009, 07:28 PM   #52 (permalink)
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yahoo for my mainstream accounts and friend emails, and gmail for my alternative accounts.

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Old 08-11-2009, 08:27 PM   #53 (permalink)
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I have a gmail account that is for my friends and my baseball league, and a yahoo account that is for family and business
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Old 08-25-2009, 08:58 AM   #54 (permalink)
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for those that aren't using gmail but may want to switch.. this is an easy way to do so.

Official Gmail Blog: Import your mail and contacts from other accounts
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Old 08-29-2009, 01:59 AM   #55 (permalink)
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I bought an email address consisting of my name from Network Solutions about 6 years ago. It is (first name)@(last name).name. I forward my email from there to whatever my ISP happens to be at the time.
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Old 08-29-2009, 05:40 AM   #56 (permalink)
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I used to have an AOL account (I know, I know, but I was 12 and at that time AIM was the coolest thing ever) but before I left for college I switched to GMail and never looked back. The labs features are amazing! I also have a Yahoo account for spam and a Hotmail account for Xbox Live, but I never log into those unless it's absolutely necessary.
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Old 08-29-2009, 11:01 AM   #57 (permalink)
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I use Hotmail, and have done since I first got a PC back in nineteen-hundred-and-spelling-mistake.

It does a simple job, it does it quite well, and it integrates with Outlook, which at the time I signed up was not available elsewhere, but from reading the thread seems to be possible now with other providers?
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Old 08-29-2009, 11:08 AM   #58 (permalink)
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Old 08-29-2009, 11:23 AM   #59 (permalink)
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I have one through Comcast that I use most often and one through my Blackberry that I never use. Mainly because all my email comes to my Blackberry.
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Old 08-29-2009, 02:59 PM   #60 (permalink)
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Other than dial-up, Sprint (now Embarq) was, and still is, the only game in town for high speed internet. I encountered the same situation at my previous residence, so I've been with Sprint/Embarq for eight years now.

I started with their email long before gmail appeared, but I'm slowly moving to gmail.

Sprint provides terrible service in terms of reliability and is often extremely slow or down completely. Customer service is probably the worst of any large company I've ever been with.

Sprint is the Devil

Sprint sucks.

I hate Sprint.

In a future post, I'll explain how I really feel about Sprint.

Were it only that I had access to a REAL ISP.

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I feel your pain. I use Sprint/Embarq, as well. If it's not down for some reason, it's inconsistent in its operation.

My emails are Embarq, Gmail and AOL.

AOL is still my primary. I kept it after I went DSL because I liked the simplicity of the layout and they offered it for free and I wouldn't need to transfer a bunch of stuff.

Looks like I'm the lone AOL on the poll.
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Old 09-04-2009, 12:40 PM   #61 (permalink)
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I've been mostly happy with yahoo email, although I use a spam service called Spamarrest dot com that filters out all the junk to whatever level I desire. It also lets me create unlimited email aliases so that when I'm done with a particular online service or email address, anything addressed to that alias is filtered out as well.
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Old 09-04-2009, 02:28 PM   #62 (permalink)
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I use Yahoo. I've used it since 1995 or so (96? 97?)

The snobbish 'invites' for Gmail were stupid and I don't understand why Google is any better.
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Old 09-04-2009, 03:36 PM   #63 (permalink)
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I technically use Gmail but very rarely if ever access it through the Gmail portal or even mobile portal. It gets pushed to my phone...

My work e-mail unfortunately is controlled by some super-admins that don't want us to be able to access it via mobile devices sooooo it gets it's own stupid login.
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Old 09-04-2009, 04:07 PM   #64 (permalink)
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Same as everyone else, I use Gmail and work email. And I love Thunderbird, it's the only program that's succeeded in retrieving my work email for me, Office failed hard. Both are also web accessable, which is nice. I have an account with all the others for messengers, and I keep a hotmail as my sign up for spammy stuff address.
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Old 09-04-2009, 04:19 PM   #65 (permalink)
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I use Yahoo. I've used it since 1995 or so (96? 97?)

The snobbish 'invites' for Gmail were stupid and I don't understand why Google is any better.
Not sure why you thought it was snobbish. It was a beta service, offering what was a ton of free space for the time, and they needed to make sure they weren't hammered with too many users at once. *shrug*
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Old 09-04-2009, 04:29 PM   #66 (permalink)
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Gmail.

i have an Aim account and a Yahoo account that just sit there, collecting spam. i primarily use those for signing up for things that ask for an email address.
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Old 09-11-2009, 07:32 PM   #67 (permalink)
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I used to use the email provided by my isp, but I started getting a lot of spam and there were many occasions where I either did not receive emails from people or they did not receive emails that I had sent. So, I have pretty much switched to hotmail and gmail. I use hotmail for general correspondence and I use gmail for my groups

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