After Lightning Email attracted the first wave of users with its free large space strategy, it immediately started to upgrade its function again.

In fact, a large free space is just the first step to attract users. If the Lightning Email is not good, the user will leave sooner or later.

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Under the guidance and suggestions of summer, Lightning Email has successively launched a variety of functions.

For example, regular sending, multiple sending, address book, keyword blocking, email blacklist, etc.

These functions are quite popular in mailboxes in previous lives, but the current email service is still very primitive. Users can only send and receive emails, not send them regularly, and cannot send them multiple people, and there is no contact list.

If you want to send an email, you can only enter it over and over again, which is very troublesome and cumbersome.

With regular sending and multiple people sending, it is much more convenient to send emails after the address book. As long as you go through the address book, you can add the recipients, and you can also send multiple people at a time at a time, greatly improving the practicality of the email.

For example, due to the time difference, when an email is sent from the East Coast of the United States to the West Coast in the morning, the other party is likely to be still resting. If the email is delivered at this moment, it will disturb others.

But if sent regularly, the other party can see this email when he wakes up early, which will save you from the pain of being disturbed by the email.

In addition, the timing function is convenient for many users with high forgetfulness. If the user handles too many transactions, it is easy to forget to send emails on time. However, the timing function allows users to do things a few days in advance.

Even if you forget it, the timing function of the email will still be sent out accurately and promptly, eliminating mistakes caused by sloppyness.

Sending multiple people at once also greatly improves the work efficiency of the email. If you want to send emails to multiple people, you must send them one by one. Not only are the procedures cumbersome, time will be wasted.

If a company has hundreds of employees, it may take nearly half an hour to send a notification by email alone. But if you can send multiple people at once, you can do it within one or two minutes, and the efficiency will be several times higher.

In the business world, time is money, and efficiency is life. Whoever can help companies save time and improve efficiency is undoubtedly the most popular.

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Functions such as timed sending, multi-person sending, address book, etc. are the most popular among corporate users. For ordinary users, keyword blocking and email blacklisting are what they need most.

In 1997, spam emails had become one of the highly anticipated cyber nuisances. In October, the International Internet Mail Association held the theme "Unsented Large Number of Emails: Definitions and Issues", and named these unsolicited emails as spam.

The harm of spam is very great. First, it occupies a large amount of network bandwidth. In fact, spam itself is not large in size, ranging from tens of k to several megabytes, which is simply not worth mentioning in previous lives.

But in the 1990s, the internet speed was only a dozen or tens of k, so although the spam was small, it was already very large in comparison.

Moreover, emails are not one, but billions and hundreds of billions of emails. Many spammers use software to automatically send emails, sending them all the time, and may send hundreds or thousands of emails every second, which puts a lot of pressure on the network.

Second, it occupied a lot of email space. In the 1990s, email capacity was generally very small. Hotmail was already very generous, and the free space was only 2 trillion, and a few emails might cause the email to be blocked.

At that time, the email address will be full of useless spam, but the truly useful emails may not be received in time because the email address is full, which may delay a lot of things.

Third, spam is often complicated. In addition to some advertisements, there are also a lot of superstitions, cults, horrors, cesium emotions, rumors and other information, which are harmful to users and society.

In addition, spam may also contain computer viruses, invade users' computers, steal users' personal information, and cause material and money damage.

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Spam is so abominable that users hate them. But they have no way to restrict them, and Falu also has no legislation on the emerging product of spam, so it is difficult to use administrative means to regulate it.

In this case, Lightning Mail launches keyword blocking and email blacklisting functions, which provides users with a good way to deal with spam.

Once a user receives spam, he can block the sender by using a blacklist, so he no longer has to worry about being bothered by it in the future. Moreover, blocking keywords can also prevent some spam from being left out in advance. This move greatly reduces the probability that users are stumbled by spam.

Of course, this can only block some spam, and it is impossible to completely eradicate spam.

In the summer, I hope to add an audit mechanism to the Lightning Mailbox server and use big data to filter, classify and block emails.

Just like the call reminder function of a mobile phone in the previous life, the phone is an advertisement, promotion, fraud, express delivery, etc., when it comes, it will be displayed on the screen, which makes it convenient for users to choose whether to answer.

Lightning mailbox can also introduce this mechanism to remind the user of the identity of the sender to avoid being deceived.

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Because the functions launched by Lightning Mailbox are very practical and are very popular among users, the market share has been rising steadily. In less than half a year, it has surpassed hotmail and became the world's largest email service provider, with as many as 50 million users.

Every day, the login volume of Lightning Email websites reaches tens of millions, making them one of the busiest sites in the Internet world.

But Lightning Mailbox itself is not profitable, and in order to provide high-quality services, servers are laid all over the world in the summer. This alone costs nearly one billion US dollars, and has to pay 100 million US dollars in maintenance costs and 200 million US dollars in bandwidth costs every year. It can be said that net losses are not profitable.

Therefore, Xiatian was laughed at as "losing money and making publicity", believing that although the lightning email is very popular, the future prospects are very unclear, and that Xiatian may not even make money back in the end.

Of course, some people think that the Lightning Mailbox project is still good. With a user base, as long as you can develop a reasonable business model, the Lightning Mailbox can still make money.
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