The purge

I don't know when gmail became capable of forwarding hotmail e-mails but I am thrilled.  I have a hotmail account that I barely use anymore but I still get an occasional e-mail among all the spam which prevents me from deleting it.  I tried to forward my emails a year ago but had no luck.  This time I checked my gmail settings and found that it has resolved that problem and now I can send my hotmail e-mails to my gmail account.  Even better, it won't forward junk mail so it's like having a double filter.  I am seriously considering creating another gmail account to forward mail from my original account so that I weed out all spam (I still get viagra and rolex offers that are forwarded from my Cornell account straight to the gmail spam folder).

The consolidated e-mails have made me aware of one thing however.  I receive a ton of mail from subscriptions to sites that I no longer read, if I ever did.  This week I have been logging onto the sites and deleting my accounts or changing my settings.  My credit card will no longer send me offers.  Gone is the myspace account.  Goodbye classmates.com.  And see you only once in a while linkedin.  By the way, these websites don't make deleting the account easy.  I couldn't figure out how to call time on classmates.com so I ended up having to google "delete classmates.com account." 

Now if I could only figure out how to filter all that chain mail that my mother keeps sending because she thinks it is cute.