gmail
Tuesday 
in the late evening 
Mystie
I finally signed up for a gmail account as my husband has been telling me to do for some time. You don’t need to update your address books, my starvale address will forward to it and vice versa. Why do I need it? I’m married to a computer geek, that’s why. :) He claims if I do this I will get virtually no spam, and I currently download over 100 daily, and although only about 10 make it into my inbox, it is still annoying to see “downloading 150 messages” and then have only 1 or 2 be anything actually written to me.
So, I was registering for my account and ‘mystie’ was taken! Not only that, ‘mystiedawn’ was taken! I scoured my brain, wondering if I had done this before and forgotten, but no! Someone else is mystiedawn. I am quite put out.
(MCL)
with 
(personal library)
Yes, I remember being not-too-happy when I finally got an invitation to join gmail and gpaulson was taken — argh! But I quickly signed up your mom — nobody had taken vondalee yet.
Guess you should have listened to your husband sooner :)
(Matt, you can thank me later for that comment)
PS. gmail has removed the 500 spam I get a day. Maybe 1 a day gets through now. I still check the spam folder to make sure no friends get trashed.
GaryP
aka Dad
I’ll thank you now!
But my, aren’t you the studious emailer! I don’t ever bother to check my spam. My philosophy goes that if a friend gets trashed, he shouldn’t have been sending me spam.
Of course, I typically send, not receive, the poker invitations…
Matt
Spam filtering is not a perfect science. It was strange that the first e-mail both her mom and I received by Mystie was flagged as spam?? Nothing inside it gave me any indication it was spam. I marked it as ‘not spam’ and now gmail happily puts Mystie’s ’spam’ in my inbox.