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title: Contentious and GMail
author: Tris
date: 2004-08-03
url: https://www.trishussey.com/contentious-and-gmail/
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Amy is definitely using GMail more than I am right now!  But with Firefox's GMail extension [GMail Notifier](http://update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=173&vid=331&category=Miscellaneous),
that's changing.  I have already started to use it as my
newsletter e-mail and I'm starting (after Amy's suggestion) moving some
of my non-critical newsletters to GMail.  I still like getting the
CBC and Globe and Mail e-mails in my inbox. It is nice to have a fast, secure e-mail account to send things to and use in a pinch. [OK, GMail is Cool for Some Things- Contentious Weblog](http://blog.contentious.com/archives/000298.html)Back on July 16, I wrote about why I wanted to try Google's new Gmail service. A couple of CONTENTIOUS readers were kind enough to send me Gmail invitations, so I've since been experimenting with two different Gmail accounts for about two weeks now. *Here's how I've decided to us – and not use – Gmail for now...*