Thursday, April 23, 2009

Email (free mail) Faster Than Snail Mail

How many email accounts do you have? Sometimes I talk to people who give the impression that they believe they can have only one email account. I have an email account at work, I have a Gmail account, a Yahoo Mail account, an email account for my ministry, and recently I opend a Stargate SG1 email account. How many email accounts can you have? (answer)How many email accounts can you keep up with? Allow email to become another tool to help you get things done. Use it to organize your life and save money on postage. My favorite email provider is Google. They allow 2 gigabytes free for storage of your old emails. Their storage plan is called infinity +1. Creating a Gmail account is very simple. It takes less than 5 minutes. In Gmail, you can set up labels, and folders, and then create a filter that automatically labels your expected emails. The filter can keep the mail in inbox or file it immediately. Gmail controls spam very nicely but you can also create a filter to discard email that may not qualify as spam.

Email is a valuable tool. It can also be a dangerous too. It can carry viruses or worms that may damage or destroy valuable data. These worms and viruses can also affect the operation of your computer and even the network that you may be attached to. Do not open emails from people or businesses you do not know. (This is an open at your own risk kind of thing.) Do not open email attachments from people you do not know.

The more you use email, the better you will become in its use.


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