Is Webmail Better? - Comments Page 2

I have just recently got Gmail because of the facility for looking at pps on it since I do not have Microsoft Office installed on my computer. It does work fine except I do not hear the sound on any pps that has music on it. Is there aby way to get sound on Gmail pps ?

Hey Bob, Thanks for the excellent article!
I prefer webmail to desktop email clients. I'm a longtime fan of Gmail, and I use a relatively new webmail client called Taroby www.taroby.com for business purposes.

Webmail has given me alot of problems> It started by changing my password everytime I loggen on and now I can"t excess my mail. I'm so frustriated and hating it!!!!! What is going on??????

Duh. Guess yo've never heard of IMAP. Also guess you've never heard of getting your own domain and never worrying again about an ISP or web mail service going under. (Wonder what's going to happen to all those Yahoo users when Yahoo goes the way of the dodo bird.)

Webmail is just too slow and limiting when you have work to do.

Hi Bob, An old man I am (74) and I really enjoy receiving your newsletters "Ask Bob Rankin." I have gone over to Windows 7 Professional (at some price!) and border on the furious with Microsoft for not including a nice, easy email client like XP.s Outlook Express. I am now using a very complicated (to me) Windows Live Email but cannot find the Address Boob (read Book please). I don't like the idea of Webmail. What can I use to replace Outlook Express please? Thank you for your A1 newsletters!

EDITOR'S NOTE: You might like Thunderbird. See http://www.mozillamessaging.com/

Someone's missing the point here. Having something like Windowsmail on the desktop does not preclude using an independent provider (I use Windows mail linked to googlemail) neither does it preclude using googlemail mail when moving around - syncing - what's the problem?

Stick to something on your desktop linked to an independent email provider!!!