1) A free e-mail account
2) A free two-minute click-and-have WordPress website
3) A $20 / year "special" e-mail forwarding service
4) A free spam engine
That's all!
At the heart of this scheme is the new WordPress innovation that allowes you to post entire articles to your website via e-mail. You get simple WP blog set-up instructions, and the kindly WordPress people send you a free secret email address - and anything you send to that address will show up on the front page of your blog. So why email to your site when you can just make posts with the browser? The spam engine is the key!
Anyone who knows your WordPress blog's secret e-mail address can post to your front page. Let's say Jack is one of my accepted content providers (in other words, I am one of Jack's accepted subscribers). Whenever Jack sends an e-mail to my WP blog's secret e-mail address, it instantly gets posted on the front page of my blog! And since Jack might have 10,000 subscribers, he could simply fire up his spam engine and, with one click, instantly be on the front page of 10,000 blogs! The only catch is, if I begin to regret that all of Jack's articles are seven pages long, I have no way to stop him, since he now possesses my secret blog address. What to do?
Simple! I don't have to give him the secret blog address at all. I have a "special" e-mail forwarding service. This would be a service that can (among other things) accept e-mails from many of my e-mail accounts, and redirect them all to my secret WP blog's e-mail address. Only I, my blog, and the forwarding service know my secret WP blog's e-mail address. However, only Jack and me know Jack's free e-mail account's address. But! - I have a "special" e-mail forwarding service that can block all e-mail from addresses that are not on a "trusted" (white-listing) list, that only I can configure! All of the aforementioned e-mail accounts have address names that really function as passwords. So if Jack (via his e-mail address name) is listed as an accepted provider by my forwarding service, all of his articles automatically appear on my blog. If I am listed as an accepted provider by Jack's forwarding service, all of my articles automatically appear on his blog. Everybody just decides who they want to accept as content providers, and all of the Web-Fleet blogs begin to grow! Furthermore, all the Web-Fleet blogs can continue to function as ordinary WordPress blogs, with comments, etc.
Agreements would eventually need to worked out among the providers and subscribers. Like copyright issues. I usually prefer the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license. (CreativeCommons No Derivative Works 3.0 License). This license says "you may not alter, transform, or build upon this work." "Unported" means that the legal boilerplate is generalized to apply internationally. A "US" version exists that is tweaked to correspond to US laws specifically. There are several CreativeCommons licences.
Where to Get the Stuff
Create a free two-minute click-and-have WordPress website ("Web-Ship") with WordPress.com You should give it a nice name ("myniftyblog.wordpress.com"). But wait! You may well wish to eventually move this blog to an independent host, thus gaining much more control over many features. (There are only two hosts I recommend: westhost.com, and nearlyfreespeech.net. WestHost is inexpensive, corporate, rock-solid. NearlyFreeSpeech gives much less support, but can cost extremely little. It also needs you to "join," fund a tiny "bank account-like" account, and allocate from that account for domain name and hosting services.) Now:
Check to see if the name "myniftyblog.wordpress.com" is still available. Then check to see if something like "myniftyblog.com," or "myniftyblog.info," or whatever is available at NearlyFreeSpeech or WestHost, in case you later decide to go independent. If they both are, grab up "myniftyblog.wordpress.com" at wordpress.com, and then immediately grab up it's similar name at one of the above independent hosts (costs about $8). You now possess your very own Blog-Ship!
Now get the free blog-by-mail free WP feature in WordPress. For a free WP-dependent site, you can get instructions at WP.com Post by Email. For an independently hosted WP Web-Ship, you can get instructions at Post to your blog using email. (Note: Despite the instructions, I believe it would be okay to use fastmail.fm of inbox.com e-mail services; the mail will come from your "special" e-mail forwarding service anyway. I strongly suggest that you obtain the WP-Cron site plugin for this.
Recommended services for a Web-Ship provider's free e-mail account:
FastMail
Inbox
WordPress Free websites:
WordPress Free
WordPress (free) for independent hosting:
WordPress (free) for independent hosting
"Special" e-mail forwarding services:
Pobox e-mail forwarding
Pobox trusted sender instructions
BeaconFlash e-mail forwarding
Spam Engines (Turbo Mailers - used by political campaigns too):
Free Vallen E-mailer, 98 - XP
All Win + Vista + Linux, $9.00
For Mac, $$?
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