The answer to parents’ concerns re: e-mail for their kids?
Posted by Bug-E on August 14th, 2006
Parents, get your kids GMail
This is to all the parents out there who are constantly having their children nagging them to let them have an email account, but every day you hear more and more about how horribly and nasty spam is! Well, there’s a solution.
Yup, that’s what a lad named Krillr says. (Hey dude!) GMail is the answer. (Don’t have an account? I have a ton of invites, I’ll send you one. Comment here.) I’m not so sure. Lately there’s been spam slipping through into my inbox. And, it’s not like GMail deletes any spam either, it’s still accessible in the Spam mailbox. “Don’t open that mailbox” is not going to fly with kids… I have kids, and I want them (well, at least the eldest, he’s 8 now), to have e-mail, and access to the ‘net. But I also don’t want their innocence gone so early. Porn and spam peddlers will go through all kinds of hoops and loops to get their product out there, and I don’t want my son to accidentally click on the wrong links.
Apparently with Google hosting your mail for you (through Google Hosted), you have a bit more control over the individual GMail accounts, but not sufficient for me to give a GMail account to my kids.
Yet.
August 14th, 2006 at 08:02:15
Its not completely there no, but you can set up a filter to auto-delete anything that goes into the spam folder.