ergophobe - 7:09 pm on Mar 1, 2007 (gmt 0)

Frankly, I could not agree more - I loathe gmail (and I consider myself a reasonably advanced tech user or whatever label someone used above). I set up a cron job send me a daily backup of a database to my gmail account, but for a while there was a problem and it was not sending the dump. So I went through 200 emails from the past to delete the ones with no dump and keep the ones with one. In gmail, if I delete or archive a message, it spits me back out into the inbox instead of taking me to the next message. It was loathesome and onerous trying to keep my place and navigate through my mail.

At least for me, usability of gmail, in my opinion, is absolutely atrocious and I have given up using all of my gmail accounts. Yahoo mail is nothing inspiring, but I use it as a spamcatcher address and whenever I make an online purchase and it does a great job as far as I'm concerned.

Plus, gmail takes forever to load and do anything (like the new Yahoo beta webmail), which I thought was just a problem on my end. Then I got a new machine and sitting here on a Core Duo machine on DSL it still tries my patience.

Tom