MailCall Info

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This page describes the Internet MailCall service and why you might consider setting one up. It is our most popular internet mailing service. You will find four levels of MailCall service: Family, Group, Association and Large. These services are reasonably priced.

1. What is Internet MailCall?
   Internet MailCall service lets you deliver mail to a group of internet addresses conviently. The important point is that you send one piece of mail and MailCall automatically sends copies to everyone subscribing to that MailCall service. Internet MailCall delivers!
2. How would an Internet MailCall work?
   As an example, lets assume that a small group of family members consisting of a father, his daughter and his son established a MailCall service using the name Smith. The father would send a message to smith@mailcall.com and copies would immediately go to his daughter and to his son. His son could send a response to smith@mailcall.com and his father and sister would get copies of the response.
3. Can't I just send out duplicate copies myself without MailCall?
   MailCall makes it more convenient than doing it yourself. Sure, you may be a wizard with your newsreader, but other members of your group are probably not. With MailCall, everyone doesn't have to keep track of the internet mailing address of everyone else in the group. Members can even change their address without needing to inform everyone else. MailCall provides a simple convenience to increase your communications. This convenience becomes more important the larger the group.
4. Who would use Internet MailCall service?
   MailCall is intented for any size of group: from 3 to thousands.
   • Families. A grown family has members scatter around the country or the world. With MailCall they write one email message and everyone in the family gets the message to read at their own time and convenience.
   • Alumni Clubs. A club publishes a newsletter which it simultaneously sends to the its MailCall. Members receive copies before the Post Office can deliver it and the editor receive quick feedback from the members. They use thier MailCall service to send out meeting reminders 36 hours before meetings to improve attendence.
   • Associations. Getting members to participate and feel a part of an association is sometime difficult. An association uses one MailCall just for announcements and its newsletter. It also has another MailCall where every member is encouraged to provide feedback. This provides a more lively debate than the fax questions in newsletters.
   • Fans. Around the world there are fans of the Washington Capitals NHL hockey team. These fans chat and discuss their team. This is open to the public at large.
   • Newsletters. Prior to paying the subscription price of this newsletter excutives like to see several samples. The MailCall allows anyone to subscribe and is advertised in the newsletter's direct mailings. Every month, after paying subscribers have received their copies, the table of contents and one of the articles is sent out using MailCall. The publisher sends paying subscribers the full newsletter and weekly updates using a private MailCall.
   • Company. A project involving several busy people uses a MailCall to facilitate producing the drafts between meetings. A rough draft is prepared and sent to everyone through the MailCall. Anyone who has a proposed change sends their revision to the MailCall so everyone can see the proposed changes prior to the next meeting. Everyone arrives prepared at the next meeting.
   • Power User. An active person with several internet mail accounts might want to have important message sent automatically to all of the accounts. With a MailCall each account would receive every message.
5. What does someone need to participate in a Internet MailCall service?
   An internet address is all that is needed. Members do not need to use the same internet service. For example, in a family MailCall the father may get his mail at the office, the daughter at her college internet account and the son through a commercial account like American OnLine or Prodigy.
6. What is the price for a Internet MailCall account?
   There is a setup charge for starting a MailCall account and a quarterly charge for maintaining the account. Our four types of accounts allow for different number of participants to a MailCall account.

                   Setup    Quarterly       Participants 
   Family          $ 50       $ 20              1- 10 
   Group           $100       $ 50             11- 50
   Association     $200       $ 75             51-100 
   Large           $300       $125            101-250
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   The setup fee includes the first quarterly fee. For example, one year of service for a Family Internet MailCall would only be $110. These fees are for unmoderated, text only mailing lists. Moderated MailCalls, MailCalls for file transfers and large lists will be negotiated on a case by case basis. Consulting services are also available and recommended for most list larger that 50 participants.
   
7. Okay, how do I start an Internet MailCall service of my own?
   Just complete the application. Then email it to us, fax it or send it through the post office.

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