E-mail - Adding e-mail service to your site.
Does anyone know a good way to add an e-mail service to your website? For example a person could have their e-mail address be [email protected].
Has anyone tried this and is this a good way to get repeat traffic back to you site?
Thanks,
Chris
JP Stones posted this at 00:42 — 5th June 1999.
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Their is a service of this type currently advertising on one of my sites:
http://www.what-next.com/advertise/ads_1.cgi?banner=bigmailbox
I considered using them several weels ago but put the whole idea on hold as I think this is a very crowded market to move into.
JP
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John Pollock posted this at 02:39 — 5th June 1999.
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I never used one of these because I have no control over what people will send with it. If people start sending spam or harassing others with your address like that, you'll be the one who is blamed for it.
Just something you might consider, the services might watch for those type of things though.
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Brian Farkas posted this at 03:28 — 5th June 1999.
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Not sure if this is possible, but you might want to pre-screen requests, or give addresses only to specified people that you know. Also, make sure you have the postal address and phone number of the person so that if he or she spams you can charge a $120/hour "clean-up charge". If you verify all the info the person gives you is true, you should be able to track him/her down if anything happens. Then, if you do catch the person spamming just give all of his/her personal info to anyone that complains.
Brian
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fairhousing posted this at 17:58 — 7th June 1999.
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Don't touch bigmailbox man! Their service is a rip, 50-50 split on ads. Try everyone.net much better split, 70-30 for the same service. Even better you can buy a similiar program to that of what they use for $200-500 and you get all the ads, but then you also have all the admin work. Hope this helps.
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JP Stones posted this at 21:14 — 7th June 1999.
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As well as BigMailBox, everyone.net will now be advertising on the http://www.what-next.com site. I had a look and they do seem very good.
JP
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chris posted this at 01:51 — 8th June 1999.
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BigMailBox looks like a great program but you bring up an excellent point John that I hadn't really considered. Has anybody used this service and if so, how has your experience been?
Chris
solobox posted this at 20:52 — 9th June 1999.
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I have developed and customized my own to compete with Hotmail. If anyone would like a temp account email me, it is not 100% done but it is getting there!
Sean Maday
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