What? Not check my e-mail?


Virtual disk space was arguably something that I could readily have done without. But even if I was going to be on vacation I was going to have to check my mail. I was definitely in need of some method of doing that. I have a handful of web-based mail accounts. There seemed to be little or no logic in opening a new one. On the other hand, I wanted to be sure that the web-based account I'd be using would permit me to check all my POP accounts. In addition, I wanted to be sure that I wouldn't need Hebrew fonts to make sense of the interface. For these reasons it seemed that an additional web-based account was called for, until I realized that my best bet would simply be to check my POP accounts without a web-based account e-mail account. Which is where mail2web.com came in. Here was a tool which let me refer to my regular accounts without the need of any additional technology other than access to the web. It truly made checking my mail, and using it, easy. If, of course, I didn't receive too much mail. Reducing the amount of mail I'd be receiving became an important task.

Though my mail accounts can hold lots of mail, I try not to remove it from my accounts' various servers quickly. True, I ordinarily save much too much mail - mail that might quite safely be thrown out, but once I save it on my hard drive it's my problem. At least it's no longer on the server. The best way to keep mail from accumulating, however, is simply to get less mail. Before leaving for North America I took myself off a few of the more prolific lists I'm subscribed to, and even wrote to a few correspondents known for sending vast quantities of mail asking them to take me off their mailing lists. That helped, but as the summer progressed I found that I was throwing off less mail than I'd intended. I was saving mail that (even if I had no good reason to do so) I wanted to hold on to until I could download it onto my hard drive at home. I'd envisioned this possibility and had even opened a separate web-based mail account simply so that I could forward mail to that address and use it as storage. Happily, I didn't use that account at all. It would have demanded more activity than it was worth.



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