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Here is something to consider before you set up email addresses. More and more people are coming to experience the wonders of using a free gmail account.
Gmail is a free Web-based email (webmail) service provided by Google. For a free email service it has amazing features, such as:
Blocking Spam
Gmail blocks spam before it even gets to your inbox!, so you see very little spam at all. It does has a spam folder for those emails that the system thinks may be slightly across the line into spam and you can manually check these.
Access
You can access your email from anywhere. You are not tied to having to use your own PC. As long as you have internet access you can access your emails, this means even on your mobile if you wish.
Bernard Lunn who writes for ReadWriteWeb has just set up a gmail address after he has “lived in Outlook” for years.
ReadWriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. It one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world. It has around 225,000 subscribers.
In his article published on 1st August 2008, Lunn wrote this of his experience with the free email service from Google:
“99% of Spam was gone – poof. I had foolishly once put my email address on a web site in clear form where it could be collected by spammers and one of my accounts, managed on an Exchange server, was overrun with spam. Once I went to Gmail, no problem.”
“The reason Gmail looks like a better long term way to go is quite simply mobility. I can use Gmail from anywhere. I can change PC without even thinking about conversion. I don’t need to worry about not having access to my laptop. If my laptop is stolen/lost/destroyed and I have not been totally diligent on back-ups, no worries on that score.”