[Grovenet] Your favorite email?

[b Smith]

Hi Jane!
I like GMail - works fine and I do like some of the "extras" they have.  A
nice calendar and such...
Good luck -
Barb

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Jeff Cooper <jbcoops at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Personally, I think gmail (google email) rules.  If you don't have a google
> account, you're not 21st Century.  In addition to the email (which has a top
> flight spam filter), you will also have access to a number of excellent
> google tools (Documents, Calendar, lots more).
>
> Some people are "anti-google" because they argue that google saves
> everything (which is pretty much true) and shares everything with
> advertisers (which pretty much *isn't* true).  Always check your account
> preferences no matter what sort of email provider you use.  If you use Yahoo
> Mail (which I'm using right now), their preferences *default to sharing
> everything with everybody*!  You have to go to account preferences and turn
> them off.  I went one step further and gave my contact phone number as Yahoo
> headquarters.
>
> So... my recommendation is for you to really set up two email accounts...
> one at Yahoo and one at Google.  Use the Yahoo account as your "spam"
> account.  That means that any time you register for anything online or are
> asked for your email address, you can give that one.  That will keep your
> Google gmail account fairly clean.
>
> And yeah... AOL sux!
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeff Cooper
>
> --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Jane Burch-Pesses <phoenixacm at aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Jane Burch-Pesses <phoenixacm at aol.com>
> Subject: [Grovenet] Your favorite email?
> To: grovenet at rdrop.com
> Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 12:49 PM
>
>
> Hi, Folks,
>
> I'm tired of AOL.  Any recommendations on email providers that you like?
>
> Jane B-P
>
>
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