GMail

After PacBell started rejecting Dara's EMail constantly, due to bogus "quota exceeded" problems, I set us both up GMail accounts. It's pretty nice. With a little bit of effort, I also have GMail pull the mail from our PacBell accounts so that it's all visible in one place. You get something like 2GB of storage, which is roughly a year's worth on my work account and probably five years worth on my home account. The user interface is simple and it's fast. Really great spam filtering. Hard to beat. I've had a Yahoo mail account for years, and their new version is pretty comparable to Google's. Why would you do this, you might wonder -- isn't your shentel or earthlink account good enough? Yes, but aside from the unreliability issue we had, it's also nice to be able to check your mail from any web browser on any computer anywhere, and that's very easy with Yahoo or Google. Garrett told me I was a loser for using Yahoo not Google. It's tough keeping up with the younger crowd.