Yournamehere@storageforum.net?

[Tannin]

Storage Forum is alive: everybody be sure to update your bookmarks. I'll be posting this same message all over.

(Why don't you put that in your sig, Tannin?)

(Oh yeah. Good idea. Thankyou.)

Why is it that I have to think of everythingh around here?)

(Now look what you've done, Tea: messed up my post.)

Sorry about that, people. I better start again.

[Handruin]

Oh man, you're going to kill me with site managment. I do have unlimited pop3/web e-mail...it's call hotmail.com, they have great service and offer plenty of free porn advertisment in your mail. Check out:

www.hotmail.com. :wink:

[Tannin]

In another thread, Adcadet asked was it possible to have an email address such as adcadet@storageforum.net This, he thought, was worth paying a small amount for, $10 a year maybe.

Now that is a darn good idea! It doesn't cost a lot to run Storage Forum (at least not so far anyway), but there are expenses, and this could be a great way to cover them.

Now, normally, this is the sort of idea that would be raised in the Admin Forum. That way, if it is impractical (perhaps because it would involve too great an administrative workload for Webslave Doug, or violate the terms of our ISP contract or something), it could be quietly disposed of before it ever saw the light of day. But there seems no reason at all why this sort of thing should not be decided out here where everyone can have a say in it.

What do people think?

[Adcadet]

my idea is that something as basic as an email address could really help build community here and give an easy way to communicate with eachother. Plus, an email address might be one way to add to the value of SF (Storage Forum).

Email forewarding might do the same trick, so that adcadet@storageformum.net gets redirected to my main email address.

[yesnomaybe]

I read that as yesnomaybe@storageforum.net (same first and last letters), and I thought it was an awful cheek to be using my name when I had not even registered yet. ;)

No, I would not be interested in such an email address, thanks.

[James]

I have an account for my personal mail at Everyone.Net. It has been very reliable so far, and you can access it both over the Web and via POP3. (I actually have 10 accounts which I use for various things, and I collect my mail from there with Fetchmail and run it through a Procmail recipie to get rid of spam, then dump it into an IMAP server at home.)

Anyhoo, I heartily recommend it.

I haven't got details from the Inner Circle here on how the site is being funded - by all means, contact me if funding is needed - but I'm happy to set up and administrate the mail system via Everyone.Net if people would like addresses @storageforum.net.

If we prepay for a year it's US$99 for 100 6MB mailboxes, which should keep us going for a while. If we then charge it to members at something like $20/year per mailbox, the balance can be put back into a fund which we can either use to pay bandwidth expenses, for SF.net get-togethers, to support SR, or whatever people would like.

Doug, do you have direct control over your DNS entries through something like zoneedit.com? It would make things easier for setting up MX records and suchlike. We could even offer things like <address>.storageforum.net for some amount per year for those on dynamic connections like DSL or whatever.

[Adcadet]

James,
wow, thanks for the two really great suggestions. $1/mailbox sounds really easy, and I bet there'd be more than a few who'd want whoever@storageformum.net (or @storagereview.com). Even if SR survives, perhaps the discussions over here will give them some new ideas.

Adcadet

[Pradeep]

Not for me thanks, but great idea anyway Tony. Outlook 2002 already takes enough time checking 7 email addresses.

[James]

With zoneedit, kyou can set up mail forwards for particular addresses for those who don't actually want a new account, just a new address.

[James]

D'Oh! kyou = you. :oops:

[James]

In 1930, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in an effort to alleviate the effects of the... Anyone? Anyone? ...the Great Depression, passed the... Anyone? Anyone? The tariff bill? The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act? Which, anyone? Raised or lowered? ...raised tariffs, in an effort to collect more revenue for the federal government. Did it work? Anyone? Anyone know the effects? It did not work, and the United States sank deeper into the Great Depression. Today we have a similar debate over this. Anyone know what this is? Class? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone seen this before? The Laffer Curve. Anyone know what this says? It says that at this point on the revenue curve, you will get exactly the same amount of revenue as at this point. This is very controversial. Does anyone know what Vice President Bush called this in 1980? Anyone? Something-d-o-o economics. "Voodoo" economics.

[Adcadet]

Let it be known that this is the only place I tolerate being lectured to by Aussie's on American History.

[James]

I thought it more interesting than the usual Bueller quote.

[Adcadet]

I appreciated it