Re: [atlarge-discuss] Membership records Re: [atlarge-discuss] Point of personal privilege -- I'm ...

[Eric Dierker <eric@hi-tek.com>]

And here you have the perfect reason to spread the knowledge and let a university handle it so that their students learn and we get a customer service
base that cares.
Eric

Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Aug 2002 11:51:04 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >At 16:04 +0200 2002/08/05, Vittorio Bertola wrote:
> >>Even if we're not able to supply mailboxes or even e-mail forwarding
> >>(which could become bandwidth-consuming if widely used by hundreds of
> >>people) we could possibly have on the site a "personal account"
> >>section where you can supply and edit your updated personal data (with
> >>perhaps some exceptions for data subject to verification, ie a
> >>member's own name). In the end, we could integrate everything there,
> >>from forum access to voting booth (even if we have to consider that
> >>not everybody has web access - some can just use e-mail).
> >
> >Exactly why it would be helpful to be able to provide people with free, non-ad-ridden e-mail accounts, even if the mailboxes themselves were small.
>
> Among the things I've done in my life, I've been running for three
> years the personal mail and web server for the students of my
> University. Technically it's easy to set up and manage this kind of
> services - but you can't imagine the amount of work it generates in
> term of "customer care", people doing any kind of mess with their
> mailboxes, spam complaints, etc. So I wouldn't overlook the effort
> related to this. Simple e-mail forwards are less problematic, but
> still there is the need for careful consideration of all aspects
> involved.
> --
> vb.               [Vittorio Bertola - v.bertola [a] bertola.eu.org]<------
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