Comments on: What e-mail provider do developers use? http://blog.milliesoft.co.uk/2010/03/what-e-mail-provider-do-developers-use/ Blogging about Media Center development Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:37:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Martin Millmore http://blog.milliesoft.co.uk/2010/03/what-e-mail-provider-do-developers-use/comment-page-1/#comment-699 Martin Millmore Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:01:51 +0000 http://blog.milliesoft.co.uk/?p=224#comment-699 That's a very good point. Who doesn't have a dormant hotmail account or two knocking around? That’s a very good point. Who doesn’t have a dormant hotmail account or two knocking around?

]]> By: Emily http://blog.milliesoft.co.uk/2010/03/what-e-mail-provider-do-developers-use/comment-page-1/#comment-698 Emily Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:56:30 +0000 http://blog.milliesoft.co.uk/?p=224#comment-698 I do wonder about those reported figures for Hotmail and Yahoo Mail since I have accounts on all three but haven't used my Yahoo Mail seriously for at least a decade and only use my Hotmail account for situations where I don't trust the recipient or the site I'm using it on. I wonder how many of those 343 million Hotmail accounts and 266 million Yahoo Mail accounts are actually active? I have a feeling that with Gmail being the newer service and with it being a so much more usable, the proportion of active Gmail accounts will be much higher. I do wonder about those reported figures for Hotmail and Yahoo Mail since I have accounts on all three but haven’t used my Yahoo Mail seriously for at least a decade and only use my Hotmail account for situations where I don’t trust the recipient or the site I’m using it on.

I wonder how many of those 343 million Hotmail accounts and 266 million Yahoo Mail accounts are actually active? I have a feeling that with Gmail being the newer service and with it being a so much more usable, the proportion of active Gmail accounts will be much higher.

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