Is there a Microsoft-like Email website? Microsoft has a MSN/now Windows Live or Whatever.... Why not have an amiga one?

Would you sign up for an Amiga Email website if there was one? comparable to MSN/Yahoo/Gmail? (only extremely lightweight)

I am going to try to start an Amiga Website, which includes a user account and email account. a forum... and perhaps an Amiga-Friendly image-hosting website if there isn't one already. Hopefully I can have desktop-based applications similar to (Shutterfly Express Uploader and Snapfish Picture Mover), that could be installed on Amiga OS, MorphOS, and AROS.

If you think this is a good idea, and the Amiga Companies think that it is a good idea, I will start in a few months.

So what do you think?

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What? You can select more than one option on the poll?

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Might be an uphill battle, but if it has a lot of features I'd use it.

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Great Great Great.

I would suggest you use a Java Enterprise Edition Platform, on LINUX.

There are a lot of people with great hosting skills, but you will need to have a solid plan, and collaborate with as many people as needed.

If you make it generic enough so that other non-amiga users can also use it, and make the system scalable then you will be a winner in all circles.

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It sounds like a good idea but you'd have to be ready to go for the long haul as nobody likes to lose their email address/account, and it might be good to secure a domain like amigasomething.com

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as long as you can provide the email address for 10+ years or whatever then i am interested.

been with too many in the past who stopped after like2 years and then everyone used that email and i was basically screwed and i guess people are still sending mails to that address even though its 4 years go now. (the address was one i used on a lot of websites etc)

also, how will you finance it?

anyway i am game.

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Having allready two accounts to check nearly daily is enough so no more maybe for me. It also depends what the end address would be named like I have @telemail.com which is quite straight forward to tell at the phone but my first one is annoying to spell everytime (@pp.nic.fi).

Maybe with a cool like @amigapower.com ;)

@PR and everybody else.

It would be a website in which has message boards, email addresses, and later: an online backup website for mainly photos and the option of an online photo sharing album type of website, only amiga-friendly as I am quite sure that desktop-based ShutterFly Express Uploader and SnapFish PictureMover are not available on AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS.

an additional feature: an instant messenger to go with the email account. ...available for every Operating System, even for those that the other Instant Messengers do not support. ...such as Mac OS 9.2.2, Solaris, Acorn, etc.

The website is going to be extremely lightweight. I can not stress enough how important I would like to make it extremely lightweight, an opposite to the movement of Bloatware. there could be ads on the website, both in-text and banner ads but not any sluggish animated ads and also not any invasive ads that say "offers are now available in your area of". Ads will not be inside the email accounts.

The website might also contain more features. I can't think of what so your ideas are always appreciated also. It will be as Amiga-Themed as possible. The IM for example could be "Amiga Messenger" or "BoingBall Messenger" or something like that.

I like the idea of AmigaPower. I will try to have a variety of email address names to chose from.

The website could use templates from PHPBB, Xoops, .... The Instant Messenger would happen much later. also there is already an instant messenger Climm so I guess another IM would not be that important.

I am also going to make sure there is a lot of security features in it and other precautions to keep it around... well forever. ...before anybody could sign up. I am also going to make the storage space as large as possible and eventually unlimited. I am not sure if it could be free unlimited, but if there is a subscription then it would be the equivalent of $1.00 USD per ...month?

I appreciate all ideas and suggestions about an email website.

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I am not sure I understand.

You could have the email address as long as you wanted to, and no penalty for being inactive.

Also did somebody hack into your old email account? Please let me know any other concerns.

I already have a website and hosting and I can add domains, email addesses, and email & website templates... to it. It will take several months, and one of those reasons is I am personally financing it and I am not doing this to make billions of dollars or anything like that. I am also going to build the website and that takes time for me also.

And this is a very dumb question but what else would I have to do to be able to use Amiga name and to make it Amiga themed?

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And this is a very dumb question but what else would I have to do to be able to use Amiga name and to make it Amiga themed?

Make sure that accounts are easily crackable

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@Toaks I am not sure I understand. You could have the email address as long as you wanted to, and no penalty for being inactive. Also did somebody hack into your old email account? Please let me know any other concerns.

I think Toaks was saying that the web site went away or was shut down. Something along that line.

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Why don't u , instead of re-inventing the wheel provide an email server attached to amigaworld or amiga.org. You could offer to do it all inc. Ur picture ideas and im etc ?

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Couldn't resist ;)

But, seriously now. OP: have you ever managed a mail server? It's a slice of hell, topped with despair and best served with ancient curses. What Toaks fears is very reasonable: if your server doesn't gain a decent user base, in a while you'll ask yourself why you should bother mantaining it (machine, os maintenance, domain costs). If it gains a good user base, you're facing bandwidth costs, hw upgrade costs etc. and you may become unable to mantain it.

As for making it "amigaish": easy, make it so that it's usable and correctly displayed even on the oldest amigaos browsers. even under os 3.1. this could be a challenge by itself.

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I don't see point in yet another web mail service. It is just new Hotmail with different front-end.

Some problems to consider:
* you have to pay all traffic
* you have to promote it frequently
* you have to maintain it frequently
* you have to track and disable spammer accounts
* spamming
* spamming
* spamming...

Just forget it.

Generally your idea offering more than just email service (nerd oriented social network for Amiga users?) is good one but it takes lot effort to build one.

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TBH I wouldn't use it. I'm happy with Gmail and I doubt you could match their storage, speed and flexibility.

Also I've kept my hotmail and yahoo addresses for around 15 years (I just got a message from Yahoo the other week saying thanks for using us for 15 years :) ), I HATE changing email addresses, so unless you can guarantee you'll be around for another couple of decades, no interest from me, sorry.

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@danwood ... but not only

What if this email was:
1) @something-amiga (the purest possible amiga domain we can find)
2) On par with Gmail (functionality, appearance, integrable on smartphones)
3) Superior to Gmail in storage spage (25gb)
3) Integrating a chat with all the other amigamail users
4) [optional] a primary channel of news delivery by the major amiga players?

BUT

it costed something like $30 per year?

Hint: I am not asking this on hypotetical basis. This is feasible... even tomorrow morning.



ps: @danwood - hey, I just realized from your avatar that you made that "Using amiga in 2011" video. Congratulations, it was great, it re-lit my (never totally spent) interest in the platform of my puberty years :)

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Sorry about this post...I am not sure if I should create a new thread entirely or what...

I have thought of a few more things. Is there a way to upload vintage C64 and Amiga games to be played online? and if they win they get like $0.01 (or perhaps a fraction of that) from the banner ad revenue?

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I have thought of a few more things. Is there a way to upload vintage C64 and Amiga games to be played online? and if they win they get like $0.01 (or perhaps a fraction of that) from the banner ad revenue?

There are C64 emulators in Java that are turned into Java-applet. Do you have rights to games you're going to milk via ads?

Re: your original question: I have few pretty awesome domains, I see no point in having Amiga-related e-mail. You could get a domain and start an aliasing service, it would be far cheaper for you. Also, you can hack on in a day or two, with database backend.

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