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I'm actually inclined to sign up for Spymac because it's available now, but I like Google's approach a lot and David Pogue's review of Gmail has got me thinking that maybe it's worth the wait.
Any comments from actual users would help a lot. BTW, POP3 access is very important to me (and Gmail doesn't offer that at the moment).
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Thread: Spymac mail or Gmail?
- 06-01-2004, 02:15 PM #1Mac Lover
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Spymac mail or Gmail?
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- 06-01-2004, 02:29 PM #2Mac Fanatic
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Last thing I heard was that Gmail was "by invitation only". I don't think you can just sign up. The reviews have been great though. So much so that I hear Gmail accounts are being auctioned off at eBay for $100-$150 and a swap site has been put up.
- 06-01-2004, 09:23 PM #3Mac Addict
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I've been using spymac for a couple of months already. It's pretty good but what peeved me was that they "banned" yahoo groups from sending mail to it. I used to get at least 600 mails in a day coz mostly from yahoo groups and I guess a lot of people were doing it too, thus eating their server hdd space.
But other than that, I have no complaints as of late.
- 06-01-2004, 10:22 PM #4Mac Lover
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im using gmail and spymac. i suggest you use gmail over the latter. spymac is using is not as good as gmail and is not as reliable.
just wait for the launch, it should be on end of july 2004.
+aj+
- 06-01-2004, 11:18 PM #5Mac Fanatic
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I heard that Yahoo is considering matching Gmail and Spymac's 1GB free space. Anyone hear of this too?
- 06-01-2004, 11:21 PM #6Mac Addict
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Spymac!! Clincher? With Spymac you're able to check your email with your choice of email program.
Edit: I've been having problems sending and recieving emails ever since they upgraded their servers. In my case, I just use my Spymac address for registration in different websites and other non-critical purposes
[Edited on 6-1-2004 by Kelvin]
- 06-02-2004, 07:41 AM #7Mac Lover
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Thanks for the comments, guys.
- 06-02-2004, 11:10 AM #8Apple Genius
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spymac user here too... the auctions are pretty interesting also
- 06-30-2004, 11:23 AM #9Mac Lover
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I like Gmail, hands down.
- 06-30-2004, 02:40 PM #10Mac Lover
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UPDATE: Hmm... I was about to sign up for Yahoo's 2GB Yahoo!Plus account (can't really give up my Yahoo account and profile because of the various groups I belong to) when I received a Gmail invitation.
Have been using it for a week and so far so good. This afternoon, though, the service was flaky, and several times I couldn't access the service.
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