RE: [cobalt-users] Webbased Email

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:09 PM 1/13/00  Dan Kriwitsky wrote:

> > How about if we're an ISP and just want free web-based email reading for
> > our current dialup and direct-connect customers to use while away from
> > home?  What would you say then?
> >
> >
> Unless you can generate lots of traffic to the page and sell ad space, IMO,
> it's not worth the effort. Tell your customers to sign up for
> http://my.yahoo.com/ and read their POP3 mail from http://mail.yahoo.com/

While I've disagreed with you before, Dan, never so vociferously as now 
<smile>.

Offering web-based email reading support for our POP3 mailboxes is one of 
the few value-added services we can offer that actually differentiates us 
from other ISPs.

In other words, for the cost (under us$1,000) it brings in actual customers 
who otherwise might never come to us.

That may not be worth the effort to you; it certainly is to me.

Jeff

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