E-mails with no text, and message they wish read is an attachment to E-mail, is another common mistake. If it's not from someone I know, it is immediately deleted. Why should I waste my time opening an attachment in an unsolicited E-mail? If note is in "Doc" format it never gets opened, even if I know person. They could unwittingly be sending me a virus.

One way that works, is to include message in body of E-mail, and attach your HTLM message to note. That way recipient has a choice. Remember - text can be read by all E-mail readers and that is your best bet. Otherwise, you might be simply wasting your time.

The good news is that as with progression of Internet over last 30 years, new technological breakthroughs are always improving our lives. In last few years, email notification systems have come into being. Email Notification software enables you to check multiple email accounts through one handy little application.

In early days of email notification software, interfaces were clumsy and difficult to use. This may explain why less than one half of one percent of net population has ever downloaded one of these applications. If you were to total up number of downloads for email notification software on CNET, ZDNet, and TUCOWS combined, it would not be surprising if total did not exceed 500,000 downloads in last five years.

Most people do not even realize that applications like this exist. What is more, people who have heard about them often assume that only a computer guru would be knowledgeable enough to set it up. Maybe that was case... in old days, but certainly not today.

Today, we have available to us a program called ePrompter (http://www.eprompter.com?ep2) which is a Free email retrieval and notification utility that automatically checks up to eight password protected email accounts for AOL, AltaVista, Earthlink, Email.com, Hotmail, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, Mindspring, Netscape, POP3, Rediffmail, USA, Yahoo, ZDNetOneBox and hundreds of other email domains --- all at same time.

ePrompter is great. I do not have to let my wife or kids have computer to check their email anymore. I can keep my ePrompter open and show them that there is nothing there for them to check. I do not even have to log off of my primary AOL account to check email inside of another AOL account. ePrompter painlessly handles details for me.

What is more, I can watch rotating tray icon down by my clock, which keeps me appraised of how many emails are in each account by their individual color coded icons. The icon rotates every few seconds telling me how many emails sit in each account I have programmed into my system. ePrompter even has a screen saver that keeps tabs on my email accounts with color coded images that tell me how many emails are waiting for me to view them in each account. Now I can sit in front of television and watch my favorite show and glance at screen saver to see if that important mail I have been waiting for has arrived.

ePrompter even has its very own notification sound which is equivalent of "You've Got Mail."