Whats that e-mail from my college buddy doing in here?
Problem: Sorting the serious from the trivial. Many e-mail programs don’t offer you the flexibility of separating and categorizing downloaded messages. Some relatively primitive, browser-based programs only allow you to list messages by subject line. A lot of help that is, right? If you receive dozens of e-mail messages a day, and need to locate a specific one later on, that can be frustrating. Solution: Use a “real” e-mail program. When I referred to primitive e-mail programs that are “browser-based,” I mean the limited utilities that come bundled in with ‘Net-browsing programs — versions 4.0 and earlier of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, and proprietary systems such as America Online and CompuServe. Most only let you categorize your e-mail by sender, file size, send and receive date, and alphabetically by subject “line.” That’s called a filter. What you really want is a program that lets you define your own categories and set up multiple e-mail accounts that you
