gmail part 1

Today I am doing something I told myself I would never do. I am changing to a new "permanent" e-mail address. I have held out the last year or so for excite.com to catch up to google with their e-mail service but today I am saying enough is enough. The amount of spam that I have been getting is more than I want to handle. Also, their block list only allows me to filter out 50 domains or addresses, which is really lame. I guess the really lame part is that they are using the blocking of domains as a primary defense against spam.

In some weird way it is kind of sad to be moving onto a new email address. I have had my current e-mail address for almost 10 years now. It is hard to believe that e-mail has already been apart of my life for that long. It seems like yesterday when Leslie and I were all excited because someone was giving away free e-mail, and that we would be able to communicate while I was at school and she was at work.

I have been using gmail the last year for more business related stuff, but the e-mail service is just too good for me not to make the jump. I am going to keep my excite.com email address until the time seems right for me to pull the plug. I'm sure that will take a year or two until I get to that point. If you would like my new e-mail address then please leave a comment, and I will reply.

Also, if you would like a g-mail account then I would be glad to send you an invite. In post to come I hope to highlight some of the great g-mail features.