ColorBASIC
8-bit Fun
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join:2006-12-29
Corona, CA
1 edit | Webmail isn't going to attract their users
Why would Comcast users need webmail at home where they control their portal?
At work the portal is often controlled by Dah Man. I don't think webmail is a selling point for a "good portal". Remote users will go there anyway to pick up their webmail, home users have mail clients for grabbing their mail.
This is another gimmick like The Fan that no one gives a crap about and just makes what would otherwise be a 1/2-way decent portal beyond lame. Give me a FLASH FREE portal with CURRENT news, weather, traffic supported by simple banner ads and I'm cool.
They're better off that spending money on licensing different news content as I think content, not webmail, gets average people interested in a particular portal. |
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Jim Gurd
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join:2000-07-08
Plymouth, MI
 ·Comcast
| said by ColorBASIC  :Give me a FLASH FREE portal with CURRENT news, weather, traffic supported by simple banner ads and I'm cool. I don't really care about the content. I use »www.comcast.net/lite/ to check my e-mail. It's Flash free.
I find myself using the webmail interface even from home. The reason is that it allows me to mark the spam for deletion without downloading it first. The massive amount of spam was why I started using the webmail interface in the first place.
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sivran
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Arlington, TX
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I donno, one of the things I miss about Comcast is the webmail. At first it wasn't much, but later they upgraded it and it became the best traditional (ie: not gmail) webmail I've ever seen.
Not all home users get their mail with a third party app. I've done ISP tech support, and a not-insignificant number of users just used the webmail. And that was Verizon, which has the second worst, most primitive, least-featured webmail I've seen. The worst is anything powered by Uebimiau. (*coughs in Westhost's direction*)
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