To Gmail or not to Gmail?

[poltr1]

Some time ago, my ISP (Siscom) moved my web pages and the server they were on in an effort to phase out the domain name of my previous ISP (DNACo), which my current ISP acquired. I did not receive advance notice of this change.

I am now considering changing my ISP. My account expires in June, unless I renew for another 6 months.

I'm considering fuse.net (Cincinnati Bell) and GMail as my ISP and/or email provider. Can anyone give me good and/or bad about either of these services?

Shout-outs: Happy birthday celticferret!

Comments

[fuzzyvanman.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend GMail. Their spam filters are by far the best I have ever seen. I get maybe 5 spams a week that make it through the filters (about 1 in 1000) It's actually good enough that I don't protect my email address anymore.

For me, GMail really proved useful when I was at school. It unified my email so that I was checking the same email box from home, the laptop, school lab, etc.

About the only annoying thing that I have found about it is that GMail will not allow an executable as an attachment nor allow a zip file with an exe in it. I can work around that, though.

[zorya-thinks.livejournal.com]

I second this recommendation. I have been using gmail for nearly two years and I have been very satisfied with the service.

[dragon-pet.livejournal.com]

I agree with Fuzzyvanman.. Gmail is great and I have only had a few issues with it over the years.

[ocean-star.livejournal.com]

I switched to Gmail in 2004, and have never been happier. It's by far the best e-mail service around.

I have some invites if you want to try it.

GMail

[urban-terrorist.livejournal.com]

Gmail is great. Makes both Yahoo Mail and HotMail look sick.

The interface is clean and uncluttered. The search is fantastic. And of course the storage - well you could if you wanted never delete another email again!

And as noted by someone else the spam filter WORKS!

[kliklikitty.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm not as impressed by Gmail as everyone else is. Yes it has great spam filters and lots unlimited storage, but.. The inteface is often unclear and It tends to resist (for me anyway) the creation of folders to aid in tidy forms of storage. This causes me to use my gmail account only for storage of things I send myself as a form of redundancy safty storage.