GMAIL
Messaging With A Difference
Manual www.usegmail.com
(rev 03, 2004)
Table of Contents
Just what is Gmail GMail Advantages Business Applications Personal Applications Clubs and Associations Notice Boards Gmail Displays Pricing & Services Terms & Conditions
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Just What is GMail
GMail is New, it's smarter than Email, displays color photo's and text and it solves a wide array of problems. GMail is designed for effective communication between any size shared interest group of individuals that need to know what's going on. GMail adds all messages from any selected group of people into a single continuous page. You will never ever loose a Message. The person receiving GMail will never ever loose a Message. Junk Email will be gone forever. GMail reduces 1000's of Emails into sensible single pages that can be read by all group members, anywhere, at any time. You can create as many individual GMail Boards as you want. You can have separate GMail Boards for separate Groups. Old messages are 100% archived and easily located in seconds. GMail provides email notification of all new message and updates. GMail works with Netscape, Microsoft Explorer and all browsers on the Internet including AOL. It can display Images, Photo's, Text in Color, Link to any Web Site and can handle Downloading. Sales Staff Design Teams Project Groups Exec Staff Technical Support Bulletins & Notices Medical Groups QC Notice Board Graduation Groups Student Groups Sports Teams Use on Vacation Old School Friends Mom, Dad & Everyone Boy & Girl Friends Secret Friends Discussion Groups Clubs of all kinds World Help Groups Sporting Groups Investment Clubs Mountain Bike Clubs Motorcycle Clubs Car Clubs
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GMail Advantages
GMail is a full featured integrated system for control of Messages or Notices, between groups of two or more selected people. Displays are allow creation of an unlimited number of GMail or Notice Boards. Other displays feature very easy editing functions to add or delete recipients, to provide total control of who has access and who will receive GMail. Advantages compared to traditional email: No EMail No., is required. This means that anyone anywhere, in any company, or in any home, who access to the Internet can receive and send completely Private Messages. Even if you don't own a Computer: If you have access to the Internet, maybe at your company, you can have a GMail Account. This allows you to use GMail at any time you have Internet access. Secret and Confidential GMail Displays: Level of privacy is your choice. Your own Private Index of all GMail displays is always available. Messages can Never get Lost since all messages are both added and also archived. Messages may be deleted But Not edited by the responsible GMail Account Manager. Hundreds of Messages are condensed into ONE logical record. The old "I DID NOT GET YOUR EMAIL" trick will never happen again. Listed 'Recipients' of a 'GMail Group'' are notified of all updates by email. Many members of a GMail group can 'Chat' at the same time from anywhere WorldWide. Add any 'GMail Message Board' or 'GMail Notice Board' to a Web Site. GMail can display Photographs, Color Text, Links to Web Sites and users can place files for downloading by multiple viewers.
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Business Applications
With GMail you can create separate and totally Private GMail displays for any project or group of individuals. Since each group or program has it's own 'Single GMail Display', all messages are simply in ONE PLACE. All neatly recorded to make information very easy to find without having to wade through multitudes of email. Here's a Typical Scenario with Email: Let's say you're managing or coordinating with a team of 12 members in different locations, maybe in other countries. You're on a business trip for a week or so. Each person sends email to you and also others in the team a few times a day, say (4) times. After (3) days you check your email and there's (144) messages, worse, there all mixed up with emails from all sorts of other people - Plus Junk Email. Now you have to examine all emails individually and possibly reply individually to many. Some replies may need to go to several members of the team and you have to enter all the email address for each. Finally, just what do you do with all the messages, Store them, Junk them, Who knows. How long does it take to find a message sent to you, or that you sent six months ago out of maybe (500) or more messages. Whatever you do, it will take a long time. It's inconvenient, but of course there's a solution. GMail Ends This Forever: With GMail you need only ONE page in which all messages are added with the most recent message at the top of the page. What Else? It's Private - Only persons you provide the page address code to, can use it. Every Team Member can send and see all messages and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING EVER GETS LOST. Copy, Paste, Link to images or Photo's, Download files, Link to other Web Sites etc., all in one central document that is viewable at any time anywhere in the world.
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Finally - When a GMail Board content gets long, easy archiving provides access to all messages, even those many years old.
Applications: Team Communication when Traveling Engineering Project Communication Sales Staff Coordination Executive & Management Staff Confidential Documents Program Personnel Project Control & Notices Inter-company Notices Customer Notifications & Technical Support Updates to all Customers at ONE Time
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Personal Applications
GMail is designed as an ideal Messaging, Chat and Communication tool for personal uses of all kinds. Messages never get lost. Notification of messages may always be sent by email. As a registered user you can create an unlimited numbers of GMail Boards for communicating with Friends, Family or Business. Secret and Confidential Boards can be created that are not known and cannot be accessed by anyone except the persons you select and provide with the access code. Examples of Use:
Graduation Groups Student Groups Clubs of all kinds Sporting Groups Users Groups Mountaineering Teams Use while on Vacation Just Friends Wedding Coordination Old School Friends Mom, Dad & Everyone Boy Friends Girl Friends Secret Friends Friends in other Countries Discussion Groups Party Invitations Investment Clubs Mountain Bike Clubs Car & Motorcycle Clubs Associations of all kinds
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Clubs and Associations
GMail is designed as an ideal Messaging, Communication and Notice Board for Clubs and Associations. Clubs and Associations WorldWide can communicate rapidly with any size group. Notices can be posted quickly to hundreds of members and be totally assured that the message did get through. The proof is that the sender immediately sees the message and also that a email notice is also send to all named recipients. Examples of Use:
Kiwanis and Lions Investment Clubs Trade Associations Sport Associations Church Groups Student Clubs Toastmasters Business Associations Political Groups Emergency Coordination Teams
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Notice Boards
GMail is also designed for 'Notices'. A 'Notice Board' option may be selected when boards are created to make a 'Notice Boards' without a 'Reply' capability. As a Manager you can add a Notice at any time from anywhere. GMail Notice Boards can be integrated into any Web Site. GMail technical support can customize a GMail Notice Board to match the styling of a Web Site or for other special applications. Examples of Use:
Technical Support Software Upgrades Design Changes Pricing Changes Help Wanted Employment Notices Newsletters Special Sales General Announcements Notices about Events Items for Sale Schedule Changes
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GMail Displays
GMail provides the following displays and programs: GMail Messaging Displays: These displays are the actual messaging program. An ‘Account’ may create many GMail Boards or Notice Boards for different groups or requirements GMail Board GMail Notice Board Add Message Test Message
Administration Displays: These displays provide a ‘GMail Account Manager’ with the ability to create additional GMail Boards and to edit or modify: Title, Subject. Recipient information; Main Administration Control Create or Delete a GMail Board Create or Modify a Page Header Add or Delete Recipients Index of All GMail Boards Archive Messages for any GMail Board Index of Archives for any GMail Board GMail Help
See Displays: All the above displays can be seen at: www.usegmail.com
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Pricing & Services
GMail is offered as a low cost communication service to individuals and businesses. Registration may be made by telephone or by completing the Registration Form at www.usegmail.com A GMail Account will be usually be setup within one business day. Notification by email will then advise that GMail is ready to use with complete instructions for creating your own GMail Boards.
Pricing: Business Account Pricing: Price: $10.00/year per Account. Service per each Account includes: • (20) GMail Boards that you create • Archives: 1 megabyte (1,500 to 3,000 messages)
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Terms & Conditions
GMail is offered as a group communication service for individuals and businesses. The obligations of InterActive Visions GMail are limited to those as set forth below. Services Provided: Excess Kilobytes of disk space may be charged for (see below). EMail notification of 'GMail Display' updates Unlimited Archiving capability Maintenance of Archives Special Password Security: If requested ($25.00 for each Password Setup)
Conditions and Limitations of Liability: GMail maintains archives of all messages and takes reasonable backup precautions (once daily), no guarantee is provided or implied against loss of messages or information of any kind, further we may not be held responsible and are not liable for any financial loss, security loss, or any kind of damage resulting from the loss of any messages. Note: All messages including archives are also backed up and stored at an independent facility. Upon request we will implement 'Password Security' for all message pages within a GMail Account. Termination of service may be made by the customer at any time. Upon termination the customers obligation is limited to pro-rated payment for message page and archive fees up to the date and time of termination. Upon termination of service, we will upon request provide disk(s) or email all archived messages. We reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee on an hourly basis for this service if the volume of such messages if high or if the task is complex due to the directory structure of the account.
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We reserve the right to suspend GMail Service if payment is not made within 10 days of the due date. We reserve the right to charge an additional (10¢) for pages exceeding 20 Kilobytes. This may be avoided by creating archives.
Returned Checks and Non Payments: Bad Checks: A charge of $20.00 will be charged for each bad check. Overdue Payments: A grace period of (5) days will be allowed. An email overdue notice will be sent immediately if payment is not received. If payment is not received within (15) days of the due date then service will be suspended until payment is received. (see Notice) Re-setup of service will be charged at $20.00 Non Payments and Cancellations: Service will be terminated. Message access will continue to be available for (6) months. At (6) months notification will be sent offering (2) options. 1. All information will be erased at no charge. 2. Information will be sent by email at a nominal charge.
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