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In Which Both Google And Yahoo Get Dope-Slapped
I decided to investigate Google Apps for Your Domain primarily so that I could access my personal e-mail using the Gmail interface, without having to resort to mail-forwarding or other workarounds. Apparently, it's a closed beta, and the application asked me a few questions about my "organization," which consists of me (well, there are also my alternate personalities and imaginary friends, but they don't use the Internet because they don't have fingers).
I decided to investigate Google Apps for Your Domain primarily so that I could access my personal e-mail using the Gmail interface, without having to resort to mail-forwarding or other workarounds. Apparently, it's a closed beta, and the application asked me a few questions about my "organization," which consists of me (well, there are also my alternate personalities and imaginary friends, but they don't use the Internet because they don't have fingers).
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The application asked me to type in the name of my domain, so I entered "wagmail.com." And Google spat out an error message: "You cannot use a Google trademark in your domain name." Huh? I said to myself, What Google trademark? And I peered at the screen closer and spelled out the last four letters of "wagmail." G-M-A-I-L. Gmail. Google must be using a dumb text-parsing tool on the domain names. Sheesh.
Why am I investigating hosting my domain on Google? Because I absolutely cannot find a satisfactory mail client for Windows, even for the low volume of personal mail I receive on my personal account. I've tried Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Outlook, PocoMail, Eudora, the Bat, Opera, and probably more that I'm forgetting, and there are problems with all of them. I like the Gmail interface--I have a Gmail account I use just for newsletters and mailing lists--so I figured I'd give that a try for my personal account.
I'd like to be able to give Yahoo's new beta e-mail interface a try, but it's not available with the pay Yahoo Small Business service, which is what I use. The beta is available for users of the free Yahoo Mail service, but not for paying customers like me. What kind of business plan is that, Yahoo? Every once in a while I hear about how great the beta interface is, but I'm not allowed to use it. Oh, Yahoo, why do you tease me so?
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