Jan Verhoeff writes:

I like surprises.

Jan

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Ed Howes writes:

What?

Only five messages per hour? Like the auto alphabetizing of the contact list. I truly believe this Email feature will make this blog much more valuable by proving both an avenue for public response and private. Hope somebody finds my message in their bottle.

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Edward Weiss writes:

Very nice and professional looking! One thing – it did seem a tad slower getting into the members area. This may or may not be due to the new feature. Or it could just be my computer.

Anyway, nice job and looking forward to using it.

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Ed H,

Congrats on being the first to discover the SEND throttle limits we put in to prevent abuse.

If you don’t like the 5 outbound message limit per hour throttle, do you have a recommendation for what it should be?

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Ed Howes writes:

Chris,

I have no problem with the 5 message per hour limit. I rarely send five in a day. :-) Today might have been the exception but since you are the only one of five to respond, the limit may have prevented heartbreak.

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Trivia for everyone:

Jonathan Farrington gets the distinction of being the first person to ever send an email through our new system.

He did it within an hour of the system going live and before this blog post was even created.

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Ed Howes writes:

That Jonathan is one sneaky guy. I bet he’s been staring at his member area screen for the past 24 hours just waiting to be first. :-)

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Steve Hill writes:

Lance must be gutted, he has been out done by a novice.

Lance must be on his travels again.

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Lance Winslow writes:

Hey Everybody; “I GOT MAIL !!!”

How cool is that !

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Jen C writes:

Looking forward to seeing how this one develops … just love the way that you keep on trying new things!

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Arthur Levine writes:

Sounds great. Wish I understood it all. Wil you please follow up with detailed instructions on each phase?

Thank you,

Arthur

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

Arthur,

The phases are more of an explanation of what we’re doing to roll this new service out.

For now, all you need to know is that you can contact other EzineArticles experts and you can contact us for author support via your EzineArticles Inbox.

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Don L. Price writes:

I like it, clean and easy to navigate.

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Toni Star writes:

Looks good; looking forward to seeing how this goes…

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Jerry Goodwin writes:

Looks good, and I am looking forward to the rest of the improvements

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Susan Scharfman writes:

After reading every item I don’t remember a thing I just read. Doctors have me on meds that scramble brains. Thinking of suing them.

I received my first message from Ed and sent off my reply. Neat system – so far. Don’t Q&A me on the rest of it. I can see the potential – I think.

Thanks again Ed.

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Matt Ellsworth writes:

I love it! I just hope that people who are reading my articles will be able to contact me using this.

thanks!

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Kathleen Gage writes:

Way to go Chris. Always a leader in the field.

Kathleen Gage

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Allen Taylor writes:

It works!

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Christopher M. Knight writes:

All:

Phase 2 has been completed.

The members contact us form is gone now and replaced with a COMPOSE an outbound message from the EzineArticles INBOX Messaging system.

For most members, they won’t even notice anything different… and this will give us a chance to introduce them to the messaging system while they are contacting us for any issue.

We’re still working on getting a SIG line field and a PREVIEW feature for the default messaging system.

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Susan Scharfman writes:

:-) Chris: Everything you do is an innovative surprise. So what can number 5 be? Hmmm??

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