By Larry Magid
for the Mercury News
Updated: 09/08/2009 06:09:32 AM PDT
Like millions of people around the globe, I wasn't able to access Gmail.com for a couple of hours last Tuesday but — thanks to redundancy — that didn't stop me from getting my Gmail.
I use Gmail for all my incoming mail, but the same messages that arrive on Gmail also arrive on Yahoo mail and Microsoft Outlook.
I do this by spending $10 a year for my own Internet address. Almost any Internet registrar — such as Godaddy.com and GKG.net — will allow you to create your own domain and, at no additional charge, allow you to automatically forward mail from that domain to any other e-mail address or even several addresses.
