Washington Post: E-Mail Programs Still Don’t Deliver

“To a lot of people, e-mail has become something that only lives
on the Web in free services such as Yahoo’s or Google’s. Why bother
running a separate program just for your mail when you can pile up
messages by the gigabyte on somebody else’s server, then access it
from anywhere?

“The latest Web-mail interfaces, such as Google’s Gmail, Yahoo
Mail Beta or America Online’s AIM.com, even provide most of the
speed and fluidity of desktop software…”

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