[openbeos] Re: yourname@haiku-os.org
- From: Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:29:53 -0400
> Hi, Michael. I can appreciate your desire to reserve haiku-os.org email
Hi! Good to hear from you again.
> addresses for team members, but I want to second the ... secondary motion to
> make some kind of Haiku-related email service more generally available to the
> nerd public, for a modest fee. This would have at least four benefits:
>
> 1. It would establish a steady, if smallish, revenue stream for the Haiku
> project;
Yes
> 2. It would help to consolidate "mindshare" among self-subscribers to the
> email service, since subscribers would come to identify more strongly with
> the Haiku "brand" (i.e., they would become "members" of a sort);
Yes.
> 3. It would serve as a useful propaganda mechanism, since Haiku-related
> email addresses would soon be circulating "in the wild"; I imagine that I'm
> not alone when I say that my curiousity *regularly* leads me to replace all
> characters up to and including the "@" symbol in an email address with "www."
> in my browser address box, and then see where it takes me; so
> "www.ihaiku.org" (or whatever) would need to point to "www.haiku-os.org";
Yes.
> 4. It would allow me, personally (!), to enjoy all these benefits: I could
> make a cash contribution to the project, count myself with confidence a
> "member" or "supporter", and effectively evangelize every time I use my new
> (geek-prestigious) email address... :-) These are all things that I would
> like to do, and again I imagine that I'm not alone.
I am sure that a number of people would be interested.
> All this is not to argue that development resources should be diverted from
> writing the OS itself to creating and administering a new email service, but
> on the other hand if somebody has the time, skills, and inclination ... well,
> it's a nice idea.
And this is the problem. Not that I would have Axeld or Marcus setting up the
mail server. But that it would vastly divert from MY time. And I don't know
that the "income" would be worth it. Especially since we would have to pay for
the hosting; I doubt that our current web host would be too pleased about us
running a service like that.
> But rather than using:
> somebody@xxxxxxxxxx
> which is reminiscent of the current Apple service, I would suggest using:
> somebody@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> since that is reminiscent of the now-moribund BeMail service that many of us
> missed out on by virtue of our late arrival on the scene...
Either one of those, I think, would work out OK. It's something that I will
think about. I actually had something like this planned for much later on.
Something in which many web services were made available at a low price. I was
thinking of things like e-cards, email, web hosting, "X drive" space, etc.
There are lots of web services possible. But it really requires a full time
person to admin and build services, not to mention more of my time to manage
it. But I think that is still somewhat in the future...
> Best wishes,
>
> Czeslaw
And to you, as well. I wanted to ask - I am sure that Ania was pretty bored
with WalterCon in general, but did she share any thoughts? It would be great to
get a woman's impression. I was really glad that she was there and I regret
that I didn't have time to get to talk to her.
Michael
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