New Service Offers Family Safe Email, Parental Control

Families can feel a lot safer about their email, thanks to "Picomail", a service with the ease of use of popular web-based email services. Each family gets its own domain name, and can set up as many accounts as needed. Suspicious email can be automatically routed to a parent for review before it is delivered to the child's email account.

(PRWEB) June 2, 2004 -- Families can feel a lot safer about their email, thanks to a new service from WebGusto, a Dallas-area Internet services company. "Picomail" is an email service with the ease of use of Hotmail or AOL's email services, but with built-in features previously available only with corporate email services. Each family gets its own domain name (such as example.com), and can set up as many accounts (such as joe@example.com, betty@example.com, etc.) as needed. Suspicious (or all) email can be automatically routed to a parent for review before it is delivered to the child's email account.

"Offensive email is an even bigger threat to children than offensive web sites," says WebGusto founder Bill Sholar. "Generally, people have to go looking for those web sites. But filthy email gets delivered right to their computers. That's why we created Picomail."

Picomail allows a parent to establish a tolerance level for what sort of email may go directly to a child's address. Anything exceeding that level is automatically delivered to the parent, who may delete it or place it in the child's mailbox depending on the content.

Since all filtering is done at the server, nothing needs to be installed on the home PC, and it doesn't matter whether the child looks at email at home or elsewhere.

The SPAM and virus filters are among the best in the industry. They are fully managed at the server, with constant updates to deal with the ever-changing threat.

The service costs $34.95 per year, which includes one domain name, and as many email accounts as needed.

More information is available at www.picomail.com.

WebGusto is an Internet services company located in Prosper, a northern suburb of Dallas. WebGusto is a member of the Frisco (TX) Chamber of Commerce.