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Have you ever tried to convince someone to pay for something they believe they can get for free? The number of people who will pay monthly for user-respecting b

• Spivak 8y ago
  Why would anyone pay for email when arguably the best in breed email service is free? Why pay more for a worse product?
  • bluGill 8y ago
    because fastmail is better than the free one. Just as good in the common use cases, they don't make me the product, and when in the rare case where I have a tech issue their support is responsive. There are a couple other paid email providers that I'm told provide services that are good.
  • rchaud 8y ago
    Gmail might have been best of breed in 2004 on the basis of its superior spam filter, but that's certainly not the case now. In fact, with the recent change to the UI, Gmail now loads incredibly slowly or not at all on Firefox. It's bad in Chrome too, but much closer to unusable on FF. No other webmail service I've ever used has given me the lag issues Gmail has.
• FridgeSeal 8y ago
  > How much do you pay for your email? $50 year because I actually decided to put my money where my mouth is and actually pay for a service I use. I don’t regret it one bit.