Those of you using a comcast.net, aol.com, hotmail.com or earthlink.net for business email - please consider using gmail (available at gmail.com for FREE) instead the aforementioned for your business email.
Why?
Well, for starters, the ISPs I mentioned above have horribly strict spam policies. This is a double edged sword. The above do a great job of blocking spam, but they also have a history of blocking legitimate email too. You may or may not have experienced this yourself. I deal with a huge amount of email for many, many people.
Gmail seems to have found the perfect balance of protection and tolerance. They offer a huge amount of storage, built in email list management, a "springy" web-based interface that offers all the functionality of an Outlook (or comparable) and all for free.
Additionally, gmail lets you connect Outlook (or comparable) using both POP3 or IMAP, whereas the others (most) do not.
Even if you already have another email you regularly use (I stick with joe@sitesbyjoe.com), I'd still recommend setting up a free gmail account, even if only as a back up. What if my own mail server was down and I had an emergency email to send? You never know.
I have a copy of every email I receive dump into may gmail account as an additional archive, plus I can search through the archived messages with the included google-driven gmail search engine.
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