We will help you publish your message. All organizations want and need to publish messages to others! Sometimes the need is to expand the number of people that are aware of your product, services or activites. Sometimes the need is to reach a more limited group with specific instructions or general information. And sometimes the need is to provide an area for a group to exchange information.
Our principals have been using the Internet for more than a decade and have been assisting business to do business on the Internet since 1994. RightNet provides a variety of services on their equipment that facilitate your efforts to communicate on the interent:
| by providing you your own private mail list(s)(not SPAM), |
| hosting your Internet Domain, |
| hosting your World Wide Web pages, |
| hosting your private discussion or news group, |
| or some other Internet related service. |
Each of these have advantages for applications where they are most effective:
| How Compelling? | Web pages are the least compelling delivery mode because people don't automatically or by human nature find your information. People tend more to browse through them | While more compelling than web pages, newsgroups can be browsed and are not as compelling as e-mail | E-mail is the most compelling mode of delivering information. Hardly anyone will get on the Internet without reading their e-mail. But of course you must have addressed the e-mail to them either directly or using a mail list. |
| Breadth of exposure | Anyone of the over 500 million people around the world on the net can see your page, but it will be one of more than 3 billion pages they might look at. The information you want conveyed is stored in the same place for everyone and you can consider that everyone comes directly to you to receive the information (proxy servers excluded). So the issues is: how do they find you? In today's world that's generally handled by search engines of which Google is the most prominent followed by Yahoo. | Private newsgroups provide a centralized place to post information that is restricted to an authorized group and can be effective for collaboration. Public newsgroups operate like interconnected bulletin board systems accepting a post at one server and then migrating the post to adjacent servers until all servers that cover the topic around the world have received the message. This can happen in a matter of minutes in today's Internet and the message is stored in thousands of servers. There is a substantial protocol that has been developed to manage the introduction of new topics to the public newsgoup service (Usenet News) | E-mail lists are a more targeted means of passing information from one user to a mail server which then replicates and forwards the message to each name on the list. Only list members receive the message. Since the message goes directly to a specific group and most people read mail as often as they connect to the internet, it is usually the fastest method to spread information to a targeted audience. Unfortunately its effectiveness is being deluted by those who use this technology in a less or untargeted manner(SPAM). |
| Can access be controlled? | Although every Web page is directly addressable from any browser anywhere on the internet, access can still be controlled through logins and passwords and even more exotic techniques. Generally though the Web is used for information of general interest and not as frequently for information that needs restrictions. Control is generally on a page by page basis, but browsers often remember the login and passwords and provide them to the server automatically once they have been established in a session. | Public newsgoups (Usenet News) do not control access but news servers on a contolled server (not replicating news out to other servers) may require a login and password to access specific newsgoups. | By its nature mail is controlled to the group on the list. Mail list software has a variety of controls to define who and how someone can get on the distribution list that control posts from: anyone cam post, only list subscribers can post, only authorized sub group can post, to only the moderator or one individual can post. |
| Updates | Updates to web pages are very straight forward. It has the advantage that at the moment an update is complete the new information has totally replaced the previous information. For example, a prices may be updated leaving no trace of the previous price structure amounts. The customer who accesses it in the next instant gets the new prices. But, the largest ISP's may operate proxey web servers and if your updated page is cached, it will not be updated until the cache expires, usually in a few hours. | Updating information on a news or discussion server makes it available right away, but the old information may also still be available since new posts do not overlay the older posts. It is possible to delete obsolete news posts, but not commonly done. | Updating information on mail lists is simply sending out the new and advising the recipient to disregard previous information. Since the information is always located nearest to the recipients, there is no way for the originator to remove prio information that needs updating. |
| Summary | The Web excells in distribution of information with broad appeal where the originator is not aware who or where the set of recipients are. Recipients must find the originators site. This is usually accomplished by getting recognized by the principle search engines. | News or Discussion Groups are good for letting recipients locate the originator, probably are less intrusive on the recipient since the recipient chooses to read the news group to get the information. | Mail lists are the surest, most compelling delivery method to reach the pre-identified audience. |
Here is what RightNet will do:
| Deadline Countdown Clock | Javascript program included on your web page that allows you to specify a key date and time. Users see your world wide web page with a window containing the time remaining to take action! |
| News Subject Survey | A CGI program that periodically (hourly, daily, weekly) surveys key news sites for topics of interest to your views which you pick as specific to your organizational objectives. |
| Automated Slide Show | Javascript program that will allow you to sequence through a series of pictures on a www page. For example you might walk your prospective customers through a series of pictures depicting your manufacturing process. Users see your world wide web page with an image that changes to the next one in the story every few seconds. |
| WWW Forms Processing Note: requires CGI |
A CGI program that allows you to forward information collected on a form via e-mail to any destination you specify. You may identify these messages by unique subject lines or "From:" lines. This allows you to collect information from any html form you include and have the information forwarded to your own account and/or put in a database on the web server. |
| WWW Discussion Board Note: requires CGI |
Similar to a chat board but accessed on the WWW it can be set up to allow show 5,10,15,20,25,30 previous posts and allow new posts at the same time. Useful for discussion along a specific thread. In proper posts can be manually edited out by staff at RightNet. Operates through ready to go CGI programming. |
| Login/password Protected World Wide Web spaces | RightNet can provide private WWW space that could be used for a closed group of people working on a private project. Access to the space would require a successful login and password challenge similar getting access to the internet. |
| Service | Cost/month Two Month Minimum |
|---|---|
| World Wide Web Pages | $30/month |
Today there is much talk/hype about "channels" and other "WWW Push" technologies. They can't begin to compare to the impact of an e-mail message directed to a specific mail box. Everyone on the net has e-mail, often more than one e-mail address. Although people you don't yet know, may find a web page, it is less likely your target audience will read each of your messages if they must continually seek out your world wide web site versus reading their own e-mail. (Actually World Wide Web sites are best used to attract people to a mail list.)
RightNet offers a family of e-mail list services all designed to fit your situation. Small lists (under 1001 subscribers) with open subscription or subscription under your control, are available for $30/month. Digests of the list may be added for an additional $10/month. Mid sized lists with subscribers numbering between 1001 and 10.000 are available for $35/month. Digests of these mid sized lists is $10/month. Lists with more than 10,000 subscribers, please contact us for a quote.
| Size | Cost/month Two Month Minimum | With Digest | Subscription Policy | Posting Policy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1000 and less | $30 | $40 | Open or Controlled | Open, Moderated or Publish only |
| 1,001 to 10,000 | $35 | $45 | Open or Controlled | Open, Moderated or Publish only |
| Over 10,000 | Contact Us | Contact Us | Open or Controlled | Open, Moderated or Publish only |
Note: All services must be purchased on a quarterly basis in advance and payments are non-refundable unless there was a RightNet initiated service interruption.
Here are a few of the domains currently hosted at RightNet:
| American Association of Independent Appraisers | Corinthian House Residence, Inc. | Daystar Home |
| EMSIGlobal | Hair @ 731 Salon | Organization of Residential Homes |