Which prospective are you looking at this? The ham or the served agency's? A ham needs to know how to set up his equipment. That's he's job and that's why he's the ecomm guy and not doing something else.
As far as the served agency - I'm not sure what the trend is for personal use, but I think Outlook/Exchange is still the predominate corporate email system. So volunteers who are business users will know how to use Outlook. However, I would not count of any of them being able to set up their mail clients. That's what they have IT people for. But now that I think about it ....... If the goal here is to make it easy to set up clients for a ham network, maybe we need to be thinking about setting up our own web mail system. Why? It's far easier to create a book mark in each client browser to point to our local mail server then it is to to to install a new email account on every client PC, finding out they don't have admin rights, trying to figure out how this version of software wants it's settings and a whole host of other nasty stuff that only get uglier when done under pressure with people' welfare on the line. On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Andrew O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if my laziness accidentally had me stumble in to an issue > relevant to the use of mail clients as part of emergency communication > systems. When I reformatted my hard drive recently I decided I could > not be bothered with setting up my Outlook or Outlook Express pop3 > mail servers, too much of a hassle trying to remember my ISP's > required information. Since I use Gmail mostly these days, and my ISP > also has Webmail, I skipped setting up Outlook Express. > > I wonder if what I did is a sign of things to come? Perhaps many > others will eventually just use Gmail or Yahoo Mail type applications > for accessing their email. > > This raises the issue of mail clients for emergency communication > systems. I recall that a few years ago, the desire was to make > sending emergency traffic as simple as sending an email. Applications > incorporated Outlook Express templates within the program. I know it > is not really difficult to set up things like Outlook Express but am I > the only one that thinks having to set up mail servers represents a > step that will confuse the casual operator that suddenly finds > themselves having to figure out how to send an emergency message? > > Andy K3UK > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Announce your digital presence via our Interactive Sked Page at > http://www.obriensweb.com/sked > > Check our other Yahoo Groups.... > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dxlist/ > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/contesting > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
