FedoraUser.org e-mail addresses

[jcstille]

When pondering ideas to support the FedoraForum.org community I came across the idea of @FedoraUser.org e-mail addresses. You could truly show your Fedora pride, by using you e-mail address. It would also be a great way to support the FedoraForum community. The service would be a fee service, but we would use money to upgrade servers, software, and provide for the community.

Now the question is how interested would you be for the following:

user@FedoraUser.org e-mail address
100MB E-mail storage space
POP3 Access
10MB attachment size
Virus Scanning
Spam Filter

All at a cost around $5 per month.


Please let us know what you think.

[crackers]

Geez, somebody must be slipping up around here.. I got in the first vote!

[sailor]

Now we know how you voted..heheheh...until I cast my vote...:)

[jcstille]

Lets keep the results coming. If I see some good results, I might get working on it next week.

[crackers]

Originally posted by sailorsgh
Now we know how you voted..heheheh...until I cast my vote...:)

Well, in case you hadn't guessed, I'm not that shy about sharing what I think 'round here... :D

[ghaefb]

That would be great !!

name@fedorauser.org - I like that :)

[ilja]

I think that the problem for many would be payment, I'm currently in Germany and I wouldn't know how to send the money overseas.

Also how would fluctuations in currencty affect it?

But I think the idea is a good one.

[jcstille]

Well for payment:
We could use paypal
We would have a yearly option where you pay $50 for a year payed in full (2 months free)
We would accept credit card payments
We would accept money transfers

If you have any other ideas let us know ilja (we would love to make international payments easy).

For currency affected, it would be 5 US dollars. Currency would then have to be figured from there. So it would be based on current exchange rates of the dollar. So at 1.22 US dollars for 1 euro, it would be approximately 4.09 euros per month.

[micha]

A cheap idea would be to create aliases like for FSF members, i.e. myname@fredorausers.org being an alias to myrealmailbox@somewhere.net.
This would be easier to maintain for administrators and maybe cheaper for subscribers.
My 2 cents...
--Micha

[jcstille]

Well another good idea, maybe we could have two levels of service. Like originally posted, and one like micha stated. That is a pretty good idea. Hmmm... now you have me thinking. Like $2 a month for redirection, or $20 a year for redirection.

[ilja]

Ok paypal and credit card is allready very good. But there would be a problem with money transfers to USA, they are really expensive. But there is an alternative: In the EU there is a law that says, if you make a money transfer in a from a country of eu into another country of eu, they are not allowed to take more money than it a inner-country transfer would cost. So for example Gareth could make an account somewhere in England. But there would be the problem, how the money from England would come to USA. Maybe he could collect it and send it via PayPal? I know many organisations who have an account in USA one in Europe and one in Asia. But maybe I make it all too complicated and everybody uses PayPal or a CreditCard.

[delsvr]

I don't think you'll be able to compete with GMAIL once that service goes public. Try FedoraForum merchandise (i.e. shirts, hats, mugs).

[micha]

Originally posted by ilja
But there would be a problem with money transfers to USA, they are really expensive. Well at this moment, US dollar is dirty cheap for Europeans in the Euro area. Even with the fees, it's very cheap.

[ewdi]

Originally posted by delsvr
I don't think you'll be able to compete with GMAIL once that service goes public. Try FedoraForum merchandise (i.e. shirts, hats, mugs).

gmail dont support pop/imap

[jcstille]

Plus what about privacy issues and ads with gmail. That is another reason our service would be better than gmail. Oh and with redirection you could have it forwarded to gmail. But we are working through all that.

[crackers]

I'd buy a shirt and/or mug! Especially if the shirt came with a EXPLETIVE DELETED pocket.

Why doesn't anyone make t-shirts with freakin' pockets anymore?!?!?!

[mark]

Originally posted by crackers
I'd buy a shirt and/or mug! Especially if the shirt came with a EXPLETIVE DELETED pocket.

Why doesn't anyone make t-shirts with freakin' pockets anymore?!?!?! Just the other day, I saw CASES of pocket tees at the local "Big Lots" store (Venice, CA). Are they in Texas, or just a local phenomenon?

And, yeah, I'd buy a mug, too...

[crackers]

I can find plenty of "plain" shirts with pockets - it's the ones with logos, etc. that don't come that way anymore. I do have a few lovely older Warner Bros. pocket-Ts, though...

[cyborg]

I'd join, especially with spam filter

[Ug]

(The Spam filter has a tendency to mark some of my Slashdot newsletters as spam for some reason)

[ilja]

(The Spam filter has a tendency to mark some of my Slashdot newsletters as spam for some reason)
(Most Slashdot newsletters are spam for some reason :D )

[Ug]

That's true - but not the point. :p

[cyborg]

Can we sign up for them?

[jzke]

Hmm, I really like the idea, but I think my.name@fedorauser.org is a bit long... theres no chance that it could be @fedora.org??

[Ug]

Well if we owned fedora.org then maybe. ;)

[ewdi]

we do have linux.io :p hahah

[cathal]

I use gmail and i find it probably the best free email survice around. Ads on gmail are in text and dont bother me at all.
Good idea though, redirection will probably do the job.