New look (not here!)
I was trying to open my Rediffmail account a couple of days back and kept getting a “Page cannot be displayed error”. I didn’t bother too much as it’s not a primary mail account. However when I encountered the same problem yesterday, I thought there was something wrong.
When I went to college, I tried opening it from there, only to be greeted by a partly rendered page which showed me the “new look” of Rediffmail. I was pretty bugged - my Dilbert comes to rediffmail, and I had to actually type the url to go read the comic of the day. Anyway, the page finally rendered today and I was underwhlemed.
I mean - it looks like a normal email program - only it’s on the web. It’s got the normal Folder view on the left, and the rest of the screen is horizontally split in half. The upper half has the headers and the lower half shows previews of the mail. Unfortunately, as of now, the interface is not very fast. Fortunately, there is an option to go back to the old rediffmail. The system also allows you to alternate between the new (beta) and old versions.
I wonder why the mail servers are going all gung-ho for all these “new interfaces”. I liked rediffmail as it was fast, efficient and had the basic design elements that I needed. The same reasons I like gmail. AOL, Yahoo (and now Rediff) are trying to bring more desktop elements like drag and drop into the mail system. Not required. Make my mail system as interface optimized and fast as possible and I am a customer for life.
Anyway, that’s all from me. Until next time - check your mail 
