Brainstorming Ideas

[DJ-Sound]

okay guys, I want to write up some biz plans for a new project. Any ideas on new concepts for a free email service?

I have a few ideas like:

A real spam free email, a email account listed on every spam list and a script to pick out unique phrases in the spam messages and use these new fresh spam blocks on everyone's accounts.
Pros: everyone hates spam if works would get a good rep. and word would spread.
Cons: possiblity of good messages marked as spam, alot of resources will be used to update filters frequently.

Or maybe like a orgnaizer setup, like outlook but online and better, complete portal with news, stock quotes, etc.. (might already exist)


Anyways anyone got any reasonable ideas?

Thanks,
-Ryan

 

[vip-ip]

Anti-phishing feature, too.

 

[slantednet]

spam filters to *flag* spam is good, blocking spam is bad. Reason being, some people, like myself, would much rather get 100 spam emails than miss 1 good email, and you never know what someone considers a "good" email.

other than that, a quality search tool for finding messages would be good... umm, like gmail...

lots of storage... like gmail

a fast and responsive interface... like gmail

large file transfer limits... maybe a little more than gmail

pop3 access, like gmail.

Come to think of it, I guess just mimic gmail...

I actually have what your talking about (the outlook like setup), using Horde. If you could mimic the features of Horde (planner, tasks, calendar, email) add a file store (to be able to store files that I use all over the place)...

Oh, and make it extensible and brandable... I.e., let me offer co-branded email to my site visitors with my domain, utilizing your interface... split the ad space 50/50 including email taglines (like the ones that come on yahoo emails)... Kinda like the old offerings of everyone.net... let dozens of websites offer your services...

Anyway, those are my thoughts...

 

[Word]

Though it might be hard to implement/use correctly, anti-phishing would be a good feature.

EDIT: Use "flagging" instead.