Henry Imler June 24th, 2007

I am not an activist for many things - I never go to peace rallies
(I am always at work); I never get onto people for eating meat (It is
too darn good to stop eating in gigantic quantities). However, I am
passionate about people using bad technology when switching to a better
and cheaper product is easy. Gmail is one of my crusades. I am a
baptized believer in the cult of gmail. Come to think of it, why aren’t
you?

Seriously. Every time I think about emailing someone and I am not sending it to username@gmail.com,
I actually get upset. Physically upset. A few emo kids had to die once,
after I emailed some cat with a hotmail address. (But they were wearing
long, dark jeans at the pool and whining all the time - they were just
asking for it.)

There is simply no reason not to use it.

• Its free
• It works better than 100% of the other email systems out there.
• It can import and constantly check any other email accounts you have with pop3 access
  (i.e. everything except hotmail) I use it to check my university email
  account. If any of you MU students want to know how to do this, let me
  know.
• If you do have hotmail - it is worth manually forwarding all of
  your saved email to your new gmail account because you won’t use
  Satan’s span, hotmail. (I am 75% sure the book of Revelation and a
  couple of Gnostic Gospels mention hotmail in the same terms - and I
  think we all know that if a Gnostic gospel says something - it must be
  true… Well if you are a TV network or other media type)
• It is all about the search. Just archive all the email you get,
  sans the marketing crap, and just search for that email you got 3 years
  ago that had that one person’s address in it.
• Spam is only for bad lunches. Gmail takes the spam and deletes
  them, eats ‘em, uses ‘em in the bathroom, flushes it into the sewage
  plant, and blows the sewage plant up. So there’s no way spam is a
  problem. It’s gone (OK, two things - A) I stole that one from Shaq.
  B) It doesn’t really do that to spam, but it is the best spam manager I
  have ever seen, and I have had a million email accounts)

Anyway, if you need a gmail invite (think it is open now, but I am
not sure and too darn lazy to check), let me know. You don’t want me to
hate you. Ok, you probably don’t care if I hate you and if I do hate
you, I will more than likely will forget about it after about 20
minutes.

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