OT: which to use - email client or web-based email?

[David Fox]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Default User <xyzzyx at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> considered the possibility of using a web-based email service (Hotmail,
> Yahoo, Gmail, etc.), either in addition to or instead of a traditional
> email client.

I've used gmail for about a year. Offhand, I much prefer doing my own
mail with a mail.client, but gmail isn't that bad.

Stay clear of yahoo and hotmail. Those services are there mostly to
say "here spammers I have an email box".