Yahoo has announced some new features on its webmail service, two of which I would like to mention here:

New email domains: You can now choose between the domains of ‘@yahoo.com’, ‘@ymail.com’ or ‘@rocketmail.com’ when you sign up for a new email address at Yahoo. Yahoo, being one of the oldest providers of webmail services, has a large number of registered users and the chance that you can get an email id of your choice on yahoo.com are bleak even if you had a not-so-common name. This is a simple and effective solution to avoid signing up for email ids like ‘yourname1973@yahoomail.com’, you can probably get ‘yourname@ymail.com’. Though given the simplicity of the solution, I am surprised this came so late. 

Random Subject Generator: It happens to me quite often that after having written a long email to a friend, I have to pause and think over an appropriate subject line. What I key in the subject line is not terribly important, but I don’t like to send and receive emails with the subject field as empty and hence, most of these times, I for lack of something better or more creative, use a ‘hi’, ‘hello’ or ‘greetings’ as the subject of my email. Yahoo mail now enables its users to fill in a random subject in the subject line by clicking on ‘Subject’ while composing the email. If you don’t like one, click again. Not all of them are usable, but some are definitely a good replacement for a plain ‘hello’. Some samples of what it threw up for me – “ He who laughs last always has the last laugh”, “Read it now”, “My train of thought has derailed”.