My mom's on old fashion dial up with her email provided on her desktop. For years I've been hearing her complain about the amount of inappropriate junk mail she gets all mixed in with her church mailers and quilter newsletters. I've never been able to do much by the way of filtering her mail... Then one day, as I'm checking over my news headlines, friend blogs, and recipes on my Google homepage, it hits me! Why not set my mom up with a Gmail account and a customized homepage!? An hour later I'd set up her internet provider email address to deliver its contents to her new Gmail account, given her a seashore themed customized homepage with recipes, daily bible verses and her own junk-mail-sorting Gmail account. I did it all from my computer at home without her knowledge and then stopped over at her place to upload her addresses and set Google as her homepage. It was a wonderful surprise!
Lea Stewart, Secretary
Waterloo, Iowa
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