Slicksta is not in beta

Woo-hoo! Slicksta is thrilled with yesterday’s announcement that Yahoo! Mail is now offering unlimited email storage. Never having to delete an email ever again is a pretty nice perk. What would make Slicksta really happy is free POP mail access (Google’s Gmail provides it). But this would take away from the many ads Yahoo! shows Slicksta while he’s reading email so he understands why this is the case.

Here’s a run-down of how Slicksta uses the major email services:

• Gmail - Primarily for business emails. Slicksta appreciates the good SPAM filters that keep junk out of the inbox. Also, since POP access is free, Slicksta uses Mozilla’s Thunderbird as a desktop client.
• Yahoo! Mail - Website subscriptions, purchase receipts, newsletters and forum / blog memberships. This is basically where the bulk of Slicksta’s email goes that is not from a real person. A few die-hard continue to send missives to Slicksta here (you know who you are!).
• Hotmail - Slicksta doesn’t receive much here besides notificaions from Netflix and an online stock-trading account. Both of these can and should be moved over to Yahoo! Mail. What say you Mr. Gates? How will you get Slicksta to use Hotmail more often?

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