I seldom use my Blogger accounts any more (only when I remember to add something to my Mom's Kitchen Blog) so I was pleasantly surprised when I read in It Crossed My Mind that I could get a Gmail account through Blogger.
Not that I need another email account.
Still I wanted to try it out. The keyboard shortcuts are nice, or would be if I thought I could remember them. The storage space is more than generous and more than I need.
I've read a lot about the controversy of Google including ads in the emails. I sent myself one test message and there were no ads in either the message I sent or my reply. I even mentioned Viagra, thinking that should get some ad action.
The thing that's the most special about it (for now) is that it's the only email address I have that isn't getting spam...but it's only been active for less than an hour, so I expect that to change.
There is only one thing that I can think of that would make it more useful to me than my other email accounts, a notification link from the Google search pages to let me know when I have mail. Without that, it's just one more email address.
Posted by marybeth at June 18, 2004 03:25 PM Internet