Take Control Of Your E-mail

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Take Control Of Your E-Mail (NAPSA)—As more and more people move into the ageof electronic correspondence, the number of e-mails sent each day is increasing—as is the number of e-mail addresses that people manage. Often, it starts when you sign up for an Internet service provider and get an address through that company. Then perhaps you get an e-mail address at work. And if you upgrade from dial-up service to DSL or a cable modem, you'll get yet another address—in some cases, five more. It’s akin to juggling: Which e-mail did I give this person? Which account has so-and-so in the address book? Did I check all of my accounts? Then there’s all the spam—unwanted messages and advertisements—that suddenly find their way into your inbox not once, but seven times! Fortunately, consumer e-mail services are evolving—and a new breed of vendors can help. For example, you can now get all of your e-mail, spam-free, from any- where you can log onto the Internet with Mailblocks. Through this handy Web service, you can consolidate up to 10 existing POPS, Yahoo!, AOL and HotMail accounts for no additional charge into a single 12 or 50 MB inbox and access it via Express or Eudora. Outlook, A popular service makesit possible to simplify e-mail and elimi- nate spam. Mailblocks does three things with your existing e-mail accounts—removes the spam, gathers all your good mail in one place and you can “Reply From”any of your existing custom e-mail addresses right from your central inbox. In addition, Mailblocks has a feature that will let you import e-mail addresses from most desktop applications, including Outlook, Palm Desktop or any program that lets you export your names and e-mail addresses in a comma-delimited format (.CSV). Mailblocks understands the complex relationship you have with your e-mail. Now you can improve the quality of your e-mail experience, while keeping your current e-mail set-up. This is e-mail at its best—e-mail under yourcontrol. To learn more, visit www.mail blocks.com.