GMail Opens Its Doors To The World

[Gizmokid2005]

Not saying anything bad, but there are hundreds of free email providers out there...Hotmail, Yahoo, Mail.com, etc...

[PhilliePhan]

Not saying anything bad, but there are hundreds of free email providers out there...Hotmail, Yahoo, Mail.com, etc...

True, dat!

I can access Yahoo from most anywhere.

[Noob334]

If you read Yahoo's privacy statement, they will release information just the same as gmail so i dont see why they are any better....plus it says they will report activity that is detrimental or something like that and that would suggest that they have to read your emails....im not saying that gmail doesnt do that, i just dont understand why gmail is that bad

[TurcoLoco]

If you read Yahoo's privacy statement, they will release information just the same as gmail so i dont see why they are any better....plus it says they will report activity that is detrimental or something like that and that would suggest that they have to read your emails....im not saying that gmail doesnt do that, i just dont understand why gmail is that bad

Yahoo doesn't scan the entire e-mail text like gmail does. It only checks for potential 'spamming and hacking' activities. Sharing information part is almost always a given but it is the info you put in the personal information screen which can easily be changed into a relavant bs version of the truth. Regardless, I get almost no spam, the only ones I get is when I or someone I know uses it such as shopping online (the ony thing I do besides registering at a site once in a blue moon), online chatroom, e-greeting cards, online resume/job sites or pretty much any commercial site you register. Monster either sold or got hacked bad because I used one of my extra cox e-mail address only on that site and crap load of spam came through.
Also when you post your e-mail address on a site, in a post, blog, etc. there are spammers who have bots that scan the pages from site to site that gathers all e-mail address matching info to be used for...u guessed it!

Yahoo's spam ticker actually works too where Hotmail's is a joke. I got invited to gmail but simply said no thanks, besides more e-mail addys, more headache!
All you need is 2, first one to be your 'real' address where you use for communicating with your friends, etc and the other for registering to web sites, ordering crap online, and for your ignorant dumb friends to use when they are sending you one of those darn free eCards!