Never Put A Freemail Account on Your Business Card

by Chris Abraham on 29/06/2005 ·

Domain name registrars such as GoDaddy make it so easy to have your own permanent email address that there is never any reason to have your Hotmail, Yahoo, or Gmail email address on your business card.


Tom Blumenthal commented that he hates GMail and that I was an appologist for them — GMail has been broken for him — not for me — for two days now. I responded to his comment and will restate it below:

From Tom Blumenthal:



“Day two of broken Gmail begins. I had unfortunately given my gmail address out widely to business contacts. Good old American over-capitalization wins again. WHAT IS HAPPENING? Why is Mr. Abraham acting the apologist? This sucks.”

My Response:



Firstly, I would contact Google because I am having no problems with GMAIL — secondly, never put a freemail account on a business card. At the very least. get yourself tomblumenthal.com or blumenthal.com and then make your address tom@blumenthal.com and set it as an alias to your freemail account — you can usually do that for free from GoDaddy or DirectNic — I use cja@well.com because it reminds me of the old days of the Well — and then you can easily not be held hostage by what appears to you to be bad service.

Also, something that Google allows is a “Send As” address — I send as cja@well.com from Google all the time and have a .sig file that states as much.

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