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Email Forwarding Service Provider Is Happy to Find There Are Many
Different
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FRAMINGHAM, MA, Thurs., July 18, 2002 - LifeName Inc. (www.lifename.com)
following its fast rise in popularity and interest among Internet users
wanted to understand just why users were buying the service. In doing a
random sampling of customers, LifeName has found some interesting
applications.
LifeName is an email forwarding system that takes all messages for a
given "LifeName" mailbox and consistently and quickly forwards them to
the user's personal (non-LifeName) email account. Wherever one lives,
wherever one works, however one does his or her computing, and however
any of those things might change through the course of one's life, the
LifeName virtual email hosting system gives the convenience and security
of having one single email address throughout one's entire life.
If only the post office and telephone company had thought of this
service! We would be given a unique address and phone number at birth,
where all of our communications were directed. Those communications
would be automatically forwarded to the mailbox or phone where we happen
to be at any given time, for our entire life. Understand the impact that
system would have on your life and you have a precise understanding of
the function of LifeName! The LifeName email address costs $5.00 or less
per year.
"The vast majority of users sign up with LifeName for the address, so
they can receive correspondence and keep in touch through moves, job
changes, technology changes, and life changes," states Richard Strauss,
LifeName CEO. "We did find some more interesting applications, and
wanted to share them with you."
One of the more popular applications and one that is promoted on the
site is as a baby gift for someone in the office. The baby is given a
LifeName address for their life, and while their email traffic is a bit
slow in their infant years, the ability to be able to be corresponded
for their entire life consistently becomes a very treasured gift.
A lot of families that share the same computer and/or account like the
convenience of each family member having their own unique address. All
of the family's email gets loaded into the same mailbox, but it is
clearly identified whom any given message is for. Actually guarding the
privacy of the teenagers then becomes a real test of the parent's
restraint.
Some fairly large institutions that share common computers like the
concept of LifeName as well. For example, LifeName recently heard from
a senior living community that has a few computers that are shared among the
tenants. They all have one account, that they share for Internet
access. Receiving email, before LifeName, was difficult, because there
was no good way to "sort the mail". Now, each tenant has his or her
own LifeName address, and the mail is clear for whom it is directed.
Now, one person in the apartment has said, "I recently received a
message, but I was not on the computer that day. Seven other people in
the apartment went out of their way to let me know that I had some mail.
This works great!"
Many college students are signing up for LifeName. It turns out, just
about every University in the world cancels a students account soon
after graduation, leaving no way for the student to receive
correspondence, job offers (hopefully!), or most importantly to be able
to order new DVDs and receive confirmation of the order. Most
Universities will not even forward or allow access to the email
following the graduation. Many of these students are now signing up for
LifeName, and using their LifeName address in college, then on
graduation they continue to receive all of their valuable email.
"We even have a lot of people who sign up for LifeName because they do
not like the email address they were forced to use from their Internet
Service Provider," According to Strauss. "It is hard to be known as
john41326 and LifeName strictly resists having to go to this type of
address structure. A friend signed up with one of the larger services
and was assigned the email address stevexxx rather than a number. Not
thinking, he accepted it and now gets more "adult content" than anyone
could handle. As my friend says, whatever you do stay away from email
addresses with three X's."
"The one I like the best," Says Strauss, "Is the person who signed up
for a LifeName email address and they have no computer, no Internet
Service Provider and no way to receive email. When asked why, the
customer said they were tired of people asking what their email address
was, and looking stupid that they did not have one, they got one from
LifeName so now they can be 'up-to-date'. This reminds me of the
person who drives around with their car windows up so everyone thinks
that they have air conditioning."
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