[nycbug-talk] Email providers

[Isaac Levy]

Hi All,

On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Need to host about 50 email accounts.. at no more than $50. :-(

Seems people have the bases covered for reccomendations, I'm quite  
pleased with my loftmail email accounts- but wanted to bring up a  
more general email issue-

People expect email to be pretty cheap, nearly free.  With web- 
hosting, it's a lost-leader add-on product even- no profit is usually  
made from it there- and it often just bites.

With that, I personally believe cheap notions of what email is about  
have hurt it's effectiveness as a communications medium- (read:  
spam).  Companies don't have/make time to get into things like  
SecureID ideas with any resolve, it's just not cost effective.  With  
that, most email service is focused on simply keeping things online-  
and mitigating the sea of spam by patching holes in the dam over and  
over...

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What are other people's expectations on the list, as to how much  
email should cost?  Would people pay a premium for *really* good  
email, or do we all feel email should be as cheap as water?  (For me,  
I can't bear to spend money on my own email, when I know I'm sending/ 
receiving mostly from shoddy accounts everyone else has, so what's  
the point...?)

Trying to stay positive, Rocket-
.ike