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Questions & Answers

1. Why would I want the Holiday Clickers e-mail address?

To properly answer this question, it must be broken down into several components. Lets start with:

a) You have a computer and use it in your RV - Most RV owners are RV enthusiasts and like "branding" their RV life style. By having an email RV address it clearly reveals their RV "personality" (explained below).

b) You have a computer but it's not in your RV -  A HRRVC member can retrieve email by use of "webmail" (explained below) a part of our web site. As more computer terminals find their way into public places, libraries, banks, airline terminals, this becomes a convenient and easy to use feature.  

c) You don't own a computer - Well, statements a & b above also apply well here. Under this condition, one's children or friends can retrieve the RVer's email. Also, the HRRVC member's email can be retrieved by an RV Forwarding service (explained below) and included with the RVer's regular "snail mail" forwarded to them.

2. What is an email personality?

That's the "front" part of the email address. Like, frontpart@HRRVCV.net.

3. Why have several email personalities?

It's the real world. When the United States postal service picks up your mail, it may include a letter to a friend on your personal stationery (your personal personality), or it may include a charity letter you wrote as a volunteer on charity stationery (your charity personality), or perhaps a letter about a business matter on your business stationery (your business personality.) Using different stationery for different reasons conveys clarity of purpose. Email addresses should follow the same reasoning, and do.

4. What is WebMail?

WebMail is a web site based mail system that provides access to your email accounts from any location that has a computer that can connect to the Internet. It doesn't matter whether you own, or don't own, a computer, you can retrieve your email where ever you can find an Internet computer terminal. Perfect solution for RVers away from home needing to stay in contact with family members, friends, or business associates.

5. What is a POP box?

When electronic mailboxes were established, their defined structure was titled "Post Office Protocol." Or, in short hand, POP boxes. Other forms of email address uses have come into use, but the usual place where our email mail is delivered to is our ISP (explained below) provided email POP box.

6. Who is an ISP?

ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. Some entity (provider) must act as a gateway (service) to the Internet. Almost without fail, the ISP offers one, or more, email POP boxes as part of its service. These ISP email POP boxes are usually known as "destination" email addresses. Most email is retrieved at the ISP level, but not all as we shall see in the cases of hosting companies (explained below.)

7. Explain "hosting companies."

This is the computer server source where Internet domains (web sites) reside to be "served up" to the public. They may, or may not, offer a gateway to the Internet. However, they do provide email disk space for domain email addresses of the domains they host. The email feature they offer may be a pure POP box email address, or a "forwarded email address," or, both.

8. What do you mean by a forwarded e-mail?
Example! Let's say that your basic ISP email address is "basic@ISP.com." But you also have a privately owned domain (web site) called "family.com" where you inserted an email address, "dad@family.com." To retrieve your mail would require you to set your email program to go to two places; "basic" and "family." Remember this. Each personality has its own POP box. To simplify the process, you can establish your "family" email to "forward" to your ISP "basic" address which then becomes your destination e-mail address. Now by simply checking mail at your ISP address, you have collected mail from two places. One can have many email addresses and have them all forwarded to one place. If several people are authorized to retrieve mail, and some mail is private, then this process may not be advisable.

9. Is this a new idea?

No. There are hundreds of web sites that will handle e-mail forwarding. Here are a few. hotmail.com, bigfoot.com, mail.com, myownmail.com
and vanitymail.com.

10. Give me a case where I wouldn't want my HRRVC.net forwarded.

Let's say you are a full-time RVer and you use a mail-forwarding company to forward regular mail. For a charge, the mail-forwarding company can download your email at HRRVC.net, print it, and include it with your regular U.S. mail. Another case would be if you ask a family member, or friend, to get your email for you. By retrieving your RV mail separately they are not privy to any other email that you may have. Also, an HRRVC.net account can be a neat way

11. Tell more about the Mail List use.

We can set up a club "Mail List" that will combine all your club members with email accounts into one network. Then, one email from your club's administration goes to all the members, and if any member responds, that response also goes to all members. What a quick way to get something done.

12. Does any of this effect my choice of a Internet Service Provider (ISP). Applies to "forwarding' only!

No, in fact there can be an added benefit. Let's say you have an ISP address for which you are paying $21.50 per month. A friend tells you that another ISP is only $14.50 per month, so you decide to change. Then you begin to reverse your decision because you will have to tell everyone in your address book about your new email address. Lots of trouble to change. Many people never use their ISP email address to send or receive mail. Instead they use other email personalities, like HRRVC.net. Then when they receive mail it is forwarded to their ISP email box where it is retrieved. What does that mean? It means that if you change your ISP, it only requires one step. Send us a "destination" e-mail for your mail to be forwarded to and that's it. You change and tell once...period.


13. That's fine in receiving an e-mail, but will I not reveal my ISP e-mail address when I send an e-mail?

Not necessarily so. Good e-mail programs will let you identify an "outbound" e-mail personality. In other words, that is the e-mail address you want your friends to respond to. You would show your HRRVC.net address as your personality. Then the world only knows you by one e-mail address, and one that does not change.

14. So, nothing prevents me from changing my ISP, right?

Right. Nothing!

15. I know of people that have an e-mail name with their surname after the @ sign. How did that happen?

Registering your own domain name is the only way that you can have the address you describe. So you buy a domain name (assuming it is available.) Someone has to "host" your domain. That means to "serve it up" to the Internet. We can show you how to do that too.

16. What about the privacy issues?

This web site collects no data except what you give it and it shares that data only with your permission While we have no control over our web site server except by selection, we use only the best and well respected on the web.