G-Mail poll

[percival]

[Poll #311631]

just out of interest ...

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[themorningstarr.livejournal.com]

Wanted to add though that come August, it will become my main email address.

[spin1978.livejournal.com]

I have always had two main email accounts for the longest time - my academic account (wherever that was at that time) and my personal account (which has typically been Hotmail up until very, very recently). My personal account was, up until about last spring, not that heavily used until I joined a list-serv with it and since then it's been used far more regularly. Most of the usage was a few old friends from high school and the occasional bit of email from a board I used to frequent.

I'm still keeping & checking my Hotmail, mainly since I'll still get a few things every so often, but for the most part, my university and Gmail account will be it.

[drfidelius.livejournal.com]

Ever since my parents registered a domain, I can make my own email alias, and link it to whatever account I choose, which is very handy because you never have to give people a new mail address :-)

Those gmail accounts sure do sound interesting though, so out of curiousity: how does one *get* a one?

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

I've sort of set it up to be my main fandom e-mail address. :-)

[katiedarling.livejournal.com]

I TRY to check it a lot. It won't LET ME. All I have gotten for two days straight is that Server Error message.

So, while I WOULD be using it to keep in touch with my business contacts, I am, at the moment, just annoyed with it.

[lotrfan.livejournal.com]

...I feel so stupid asking, but what is "gmail"?

[drfidelius.livejournal.com]

gmail is the current hot-topic from the guys from Google. Basically they give away mail-accounts which can hold 1000MB of storage (which -in the words of Bill Gates- "should be enough for anyone") , and because you can search the mails (and gmail will find any and all other mails somehow related to the one you're interested in, and apparently presenting them like a forum-thread kind of thing), there is no need anymore to file your mails in seperate folders to find them back.

[lotrfan.livejournal.com]

:) Okay, that clears up a lot of confusion, thank you!