After having a clearly better approach to mail delivery pointed out to me by a friend yesterday, I pushed a new version of 10MinuteMail out last night. End users shouldn't notice anything different, but behind the scenes the mail acceptance and delivery is MUCH higher performing. There should be less incoming mail delays, slow pages, and less domain changing. Inactive e-mail addresses will return a bounce notice now, as they probably should have done from the start.

I apologize for the delivery issues yesterday, before I made the change, the amount of incoming junk was really slamming on the server. Hopefully that's a thing of the past now.

First, you have to understand how big a deal the 2600 Magazine is/was to me. When I was just a wee hacker on a 32MHz Apple finding a place that sold 2600 was like finding a place selling Holy Grails. We'd pour over the pages multiple times, and pass it around to all our computer inclined friends.

It's a pure tech magazine, like W is to fashion. I've always had a ton of respect for it.

As such, when I found out that 10MinuteMail is mentioned, albeit in a secondary fashion, in an issue of 2600 I had to order a copy:) I'm sure many people won't understand why an indirect mention in a cheaply printed, small distribution, magazine that most people have never heard of means more to me than being on the front page of Digg, Slashdot, and Yahoo Tech, but it does.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2008/06/16/2003414884

It's especially interesting how the availability of 10MinuteMail in so many different languages makes it more likely to be a popular site in other countries. It stands to reason, but not something I'd really considered directly.

If your site isn't USA specific, you'd may want to consider offering your site in multiple languages.

I found a video someone made about using 10MinuteMail. You can view it here:

10 Minute Mail video

I'm pleased that people find it useful enough to bother creating a how-to video about it. Happy users are the best thing you can have.

And if you haven't seen it, I have a video tour of 10MinuteMail that I made myself:

10 Minute Mail video tour

Check it out here:

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/26251