The Mail Guy

Life-sized polystyrene Alpha Geek, awarded to the Mail Team (the Oddpost guys) at Yahoo!

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Kaptain Krispy Kreme says:

You've been slashdotted! Sweet.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

TomatoHunter says:

Because Google left puberty a long time ago.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Hedger Wang says:

Great!!!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Brian Lane Winfield Moore says:

Yeah... I dunno about this. It seems a bit juvenile and they very well may end up eating their words soon enough...
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

the bystander says:

ha ha! cute
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

floodmixed says:

F yeah /.

And Gmail is way better. Being a 6 year Yahoo! mail user, i recently switched and regret not having gmail for the last 6 years...
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Who cares if it's a bit juvenile? How often do you see companies reward good work with anything other than an extra bit on thier year-end bonus or a few stock options? It's good to see a company reward the hard work and long hours (not just the results) that a dedicated project team puts in.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

jacksonj04 says:

Nice work on getting the slashdotting, although I must say this seems very immature of the Yahoo! team. Imagine if Google did the same to celebrate their 'victory over Hotmail', Hotmail still has vastly more users.

And gMail is still far nicer to use, plus it works through my school's rather obscure firewall rules.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Shane13 says:

I don't think they've beaten Google by an stretch of the imagination. I have accounts at both. I prefer the Gmail man.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

txGeek says:

"Celebrating their victory over"? Immature? Isn't is more like a large cold corporation doing something unexpected to show appreciation for the programmers that have given up their lives for the company?

I'm not pro-Yahoo by a long shot, but I think Yahoo deserves a pat on the back. Even if all they did was give them a goofy little statue.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

gerardbraad says:

The NEW Yahoo! mail interface will beat Gmail. They don't mean the current interface... if you dont know what I mean, look for the news items through the search of slashdot.org or open whatsnew.mail.yahoo.com/. congrats to the guys of oddpost.com.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

surfiñg [deleted] says:

25252 views! one of the highest counts on flickr.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

vardhman says:

There is a company which innovates by pressure, and another which innovates by nature :)
Choice is all yours
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

samwyse says:

27,847 views now. Hey, anyone interested in Russian adoption pictures, click on my name above.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Nat W says:

very cool statue.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

oblivionsp says:

Poland cracked the Enigma.. not England.. maybe they are trying to say something about the Yahoo mail team... was it outsourced? :)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Firefalcon says:

Yes it is an advertising stunt, but to the Yahoo Mail programmers who wrote the new interface, I say it is a recognition of their hard work. I hope they also get a bonus as a result.

And on another note: "Viewed 37401 times."
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

nex says:

some of the first enigma-cracking efforts were conducted in poland, and those helped the british researchers with their work, but it's not like bletchley park just provided superior computing power for imported, ready-made algorithms. not that i know all too much about it, but i wouldn't think alan turing, for example, didn't come up with something nifty :-)

but anyway, yahoo likening their comparatively simple clone job to those cryptographers' mission ... that's silly, bordering on tasteless.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

fraew says:

could have at least used a photo that was in focus...
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Ravi Rao says:

first post!

...

(well, atleast I tried ;)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

ug_luvz_trance says:

I still prefer gmail, but congratulations to the programmers for all of their hard work. And shame on the idiot manager who just embarrassed all of them.

Keep it up though. Competition is nice.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

_mpd_ says:

Glad to see my favorite photo site can survive Slashdot :)

(And, despite the Yahoo acquisition of Flickr (gotta love the money pouring in), I still love my Gmail)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

colur says:

I hear the new Yahoo mail is really nice but I'll still use Gmail because of the text ads compared to those big ugly nasty banner ads that Yahoo uses. Plus, Gmail gives more space.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Jayson Emery says:

So this the geek equivalent to Michelangelo’s David? I am impressed that Flickr can handle all the traffic this photo must be getting!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

alcarilinque says:

Why are geeks always portrayed as redheads? All I need is a purple vest, and that's me. :x
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

zotter says:

Oddpost was cool over a year ago..and well... was cooler without Yahoo.

The only thing Yahoo has managed to add is advertising bloat.

Dear Yahoo, you'll have to do better than this going forward. Acquiring a company and touting their capabilities is so Microsoft.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

pascalbrax says:

50k views :)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

future progress says:

"Not since the code breakers in Britain's Bletchley Park deciphered Germany's Enigma code during World War II has so much brainpower been focused on kicking an enemy's ass."

haha...well said...

>||;)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

GuillaumeB says:

Well true Gmail is now way behind !!! Even Live Mail beta is way better than Gmail . Yahoo Mail beta kicks everybody's ass
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

ccho says:

Use double quotes to enclose a phrase, or else your tags may attract people looking for photos of donkeys or romantic moments.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

gleemie says:

Of course, the alpha geek is male.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

wasitova says:

Congrats! The New Yahoo Mail surely deserves it!

A happy Beta user...
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

sgrah says:

...I'm using yahoo mail, and I haven't even noticed any changes.

Does that make me blind and stupid?
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

b7j0c says:

its sad when you have to buy yourself a trophy.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

A.H.M. says:

This is kind of pre-emptive when most people are still using the old, ad-ridden Yahoo Mail.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Fermi Zhang says:

Well, at least we are using Flickr(which is part of Yahoo!) for free(some of us)...
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

GrooveSurfer says:

74000 views! (and I'm the 74001) :) its amazing the power of slashdot to drive site traffic. if this was a non-pro site the server would have been on its knees :) congrats to the yahoo team for recognizing ) the efforts of it's dev team on a project!
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Adrian in Dallas says:

Somehow this is remindful of the "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner that decorated the aircraft carrier a NUMBER OF YEARS AGO as the frat-boy (and costumed) puppet of the war-profiteer vice-president announced the end of hostilities in Iraq... That wasn't true then, and Yahoo will NEVER win the war against Google now. Methinks Yahoo's "celebration" is equally premature.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

Ed Byrne says:

Is it just me or does that statue look a little bit like Bill Gates?
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

superbillman89 says:

Ha, thats not what they're stocks say... In a game of monopoly, Google kicks Yahoo's ass.
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

jaqian says:

Ha Ha both were beaten to the 1Gb mail by Spymac.com
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

mihir says:

Nice! Still waiting to get my hands dirty on the new yahoo mail interface! Have signed up but no luck yet in getting access to the beta service. When are they opening up more widely?
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

kamada says:

Yes, he is in purple vest ;)
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

bsdguru says:

Kentbrew what happened to the pic of the text?
Posted 50 months ago. ( permalink )

emil_yang_fei says:

Yahoo!Mail Need not beat anyone,just do yourself better as you can!
Posted 48 months ago. ( permalink )

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