If truthout started an email service, would you use it?

We are developing a software platform much like Hotmail so our readers can be, for example, 'Tom.Brady@truthout.org.' It will be free upon signup, I am almost completely sure, and will have web access from anywhere so you can always get your mail (again, like Hotmail, but without the corporate whorishness). It will also have all the features like spam blocking, etc.

So, if we rolled this out, would you become an '@truthout.org' person?

would love to dump Yahoo.


Cher

:thumbsup:

Screw Micro$haft.

trying to be honest here.

...and that wouldn't make it very economically feasible as a 'free' email service, I think.

I really like your work, Mr Pitt. Keep on rockin' in the free world...

What are the long term plans for this service? As much as I would prefer Truthout to yahoo or hotmail, there is a good probability that they will be there in the future. At what cost we don't know but a free Truthout service would affford a much "cleaner" alternative.

but I expect others would like it

Yes, I would use truthout, and abandon hotmail in a flash.

Say, William, would you filter out all "Natasha Allachini" spam?

:)

I would most definitely sign up for that! No diggity no doubt! :P

Or "shareing" it? Or "renting" the mailing lists?

i know ya ain't rich , Will : grin :

Revenue comes from reader donations. No banners, no pop-ups, and we don't sell names to any lists.

Personally, I can't get enough advertisements crammed into my day.

I can barely manage my current email addresses.

i currently have yahoo and Care2 for political related e-mails,etc., i'd get rid of yahoo if Truthout developed its own.

I'd do it in a heartbeat!

:toast:

I could always use another email account. :-)

I would make it my homepage, too, if you wanted to do something like that because I hate all the ad crap on other sites.

I quit using Lycos, for instance, when, everytime I opened my homepage I had to look at the playing cards the repukes had made of liberals.

And then you could offer web site hosting and pix hosting and I'd publish all my porno pix of other DUers, and..

okay, if I HAD THEM I could.

and you could have an ftp site where people could store info accessible to all truth-outers with links to issues researched, with links attached, and sorted by category..

okay, that's more than email, but I would like the email, too.

Sorry to be off topic

http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2003/12/05/58407.php?sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news

Amendment No. 2900 to the Equal Voting Rights Act of 2001: “The voting system shall produce a permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity for such system.
“The voting system shall provide the voter with an opportunity to change the ballot or correct any error before the permanent paper record is produced.
“The printed record shall be available as an official record for any recount conducted with respect to any election for Federal office in which the system is used.”

why would I advertise your site exclusively?

Great for sending outgoing mail of political nature! Great idea.

My main email provider is shutting down on the 15th. I only use free email services because I'm low income but I would love something better than yahoo, which is sooooo slllllowwwwww.

Mainly I'm looking for --
--from time to time I need to be able to send large attachments and less frequently I need to receive them from people on my mailing list
-- i would prefer not to get any attachments from people not in my contacts list
-- for the love of pete, no pop-ups, i realize you must pay for the site but please, banner ads only
-- either an easy way to bounce back messages when I go on vacation or a large amount of space before the box is filled up
-- spam blocking
-- most important is to be able to access it from anywhere in the world instead of just from my own computer

I'll probably use your site even if it doesn't comply all of these -- my past service had pop-ups -- looking forward to giving it a try.

It would certainly be a hell of a lot more dignified to be "@truthout.org" than "@yahoo.com." Do these folks realize that the word yahoo doesn't have very pleasant connotations???

I have an account with AOL and with Netscape. I used to use Hotmail but I refuse to use Microsoft for anything. I could always use another e-mail address.

Hey, you're one of the greatest guys in the world and I have
infinite respect for you and your kindness and your writing talent,
and complete trust of your intentions. I'm also very grateful for the
constant work you do to help fight the fascists in the BFEE.
(I'm not trying to make this personal, just want to make clear that
I hold you in high regard.)

But within the past few days I've seen the, IMO totally bogus,
FAIR "Media Advisory" about Clark posted on the truthout site.
This "Advisory" was full of distortions of General Clark's words.
It was almost as bad as the infamous trashy Nation piece.
So if "truth"out is used to spread such smears,
I wouldn't want to be associated with it.

If you posted genuine criticism of Clark, or legit questions
(and there are plenty of each), I'd have no problem.
I have questions about him that I'd like answered,
just as I have questions about Dean that I'd like answered.
But I don't appreciate the perpetuation of distortions.

I raised hell about that (it was several weeks ago, btw).

Then I'd like to issue it asap.
(Tho' I would like to understand why the column appeared on
truthout a couple of days ago if you raised hell about it weeks ago.)

Oh, and I should add Will, after the primaries when we have a
Dem candidate, I'd be proud to use the truthout email address.

Appreciate your reply.

And as surprised as I was to see the FAIR smear reproduced on Truthout, it is your site and your choice what to post.
(Tho' I of course wrote to "the editor" to complain.)

It is kinda weird though to use Truthout to post negative things about a candidate many of us here support, then ask us if we want to promote Truthout with email. Do I want to help trash my candidate? No.

Please do.

:thumbsup:

... as long as it's free.

It's great advertising for truthout.org and I'd be really, really glad to do that!

But we just dropped our aol and our answering service and a few other things because we can't afford them nickel-ing and dime-ing us every month... a little bump in the financial road at the moment. Now, if only I could just quit $moking even while stressed! :eyes:

Yes! Sure! If you can take it on, it's a great idea.

And yes some more.

you bet.

I'm looking for a new email addy for my freeby website.

partisanwitchhunt@truthout.org has a nice ring to it.

Don_G @ truth.

I guess it's something the Freepers couldn't copywright or defend in court.

Currently down to three email accounts from seven, a new free site like you describe sounds good.

Do I really need another email account? Probably not. Would I want one to be used exclusively for my political ravings, sharing of political news, and support of my candidate? Certainly!

from what I read here there are many who do need/want it. plus, it's impossible to know what situations my future will bring that would make a truthout e-mail address a handy/useful/necessary thing. may I suggest you include a "view headers" feature--I had to cajole one of my ISPs to do so after receiving a freeper attack that I wanted to trace.

:kick:

:hi:

be proud to.

I want to dump my Yahoo account because I get 300-400 spams a day.

I would love to have an email address that might nudge people to surf to Truthout, if you can do this without draining too many resources.

Regards,
Schmendrick

I would gladly embrace a TO mail service.

I would strongly suggest that it would best be hosted in some Democratic, First World country and not the United States (beyond the reach of AshKKKroft).

brring it on

sign me up today.
dweller (or reserve that username for me please)

peace,
dp

What would be the point ?

if free

Great idea

a hit w/ the members--something like 70 percent signed up for the e-mail service.

or forwarded to a pop acct?

Long ago, I signed up with yahoo when it was still free to forward to your pop mail. Right after I changed everyone over to my yahoo addy, they started charging for pop forwarding.

I don't know how that affects the cost to run the service or anything, but if it is possible to do that, I would surely use it.

If for no other reason than people would go "what's truthout.org?"

Education would commence.

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I'd love to give Truthout some extra exposure that way.

BTW, Will, there's a volunteer I work with for Kucinich who forwards Truthout's e-mail digests to a huge list of others.:7 I almost subscribed until I realized I'd be getting about a dozen copies! LOL

www.myrealbox.com

I would use it.