Army.ca email?

[Jake]

I did a couple searches and didn't find any discussion on this. What does everyone (especially Mr.Bobbitt and the DS) think about an Army.ca email service? I personally would love to have an Army.ca email address. I'm not sure of the work and cost associated with having one on Army.ca, but just an idea (not saying we don't get enough for our 30 bones  ) . Thoughts?

 

[GAP]

With the purchase of a mail server, adequate disk storage space, plus prescreening/scanning...the cost ain't going to be cheap...

It would have to be a purchased service by a large number of people, not just 100 or so like the subscriptions, before it would even be viable, let alone the labor involved. Nice idea....I'll wait to see what the response is

 

[iceman295]

I think that'd be pretty cool

Even though alot of people have a tonne of email's as it is, another one for Army.Ca related stuff would be cool

 

[Fishbone Jones]

I'm pretty sure this has come up before. The site owner, Mr Bobbit, decided against it for all the above reasons. Cost, time, energy, hardware, etc. IIRC, but I'm sure he'll be along shortly to explain. Don't get your hopes up.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

recceguy's on the money, unfortunately. I did investigate Army.ca addresses a while back, and the net result was with all the large, free addresses already out there (hotmail, yahoo, gmail) it seems the demand won't offset the costs in terms of bandwidth, administration, security and quotas.

 

[Jake]

Okay then, thanks for the replies