Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
For the last several chapters we've looked at how to get information, such
as alerts, notices, and updates about the topics in which you're interested,
lowing toward you.
It's a little intimidating, isn't it? You've set all these traps, now what are you
supposed to do with all this information?
he RSS feeds can be organized in your RSS feed reader and kept until
you're ready to look at them. E-mail, on the other hand, has a distressing
tendency to pile up and hinder you from getting to the information that you
really want to deal with.
his chapter addresses the other side of information trapping—what to do
when you get start getting the e-mails full of the information you wanted.
Do you save them, ilter them, or forward them onward? Do you hide under
your desk? You've learned to make your queries comprehensive and man-
ageable; now we'll take the irst steps to make the low manageable as well.
I have a spectacular disadvantage in writing this chapter. here are billions
of ways you could have your e-mail set up. You might use Outlook, hunder-
bird, or Eudora. You might be using a corporate setup. here's no way I can
cover every possible e-mail permutation. For this reason, I'm going to intro-
duce you to a free online e-mail service and teach you how to ilter using that
service. Because the service is compatible with POP forwarding, you can use
it as an initial ilter and still get e-mail to your regular mailbox. So you can
think of this service as your irst ilter point for information trapping.
Introducing GMail
GMail (gmail.com) is a free e-mail service from Google. Now you may be
wondering, “Why did Google, which is known for search engine technology,
start ofering an e-mail application?” You've got me. However, GMail does
marry useful e-mail reading with excellent searching functions, as you'll
discover later in this chapter. It also ofers an enormous storage limit—over
2.5 gigabytes, as of this writing, and increasing all the time.
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