As well as a user-friendly web address :-

www.expertsearch.co.uk/firstname.lastname

ExpertSearch provides 'Online Directory' subscribers with a matching email address :-

firstname.lastname@expertsearch.co.uk

- send a message in this format to any expert whose details appear in the 'Online Directory' and, by a trick of electronic wizardry, your message will be delivered to the individual's 'personal' (i.e. Internet Service Provider) email address.

The three main advantages of this arrangement are as follows:-

(1) the address is 'expert witness-specific', and looks more professional than most ISP email addresses;

(2) the ISP email address can be kept private - in particular, from commercial 'direct mailing' lists, thereby avoiding to a large extent the current deluge of unsolicited 'spam' email messages - without doubt one of the least desirable and most offensive aspects of Internet technology. All messages sent to an 'expertsearch' email address are subject to an 'anti-spam' filter, with all 'junk' messages being intercepted and deleted by our mail server;

(3) the expert is free to change ISP whenever he/she wishes to do so, without the inconvenience of the old email address becoming obsolete, without the need to notify a large number of contacts of the change of email address and without messages sent to the old address being lost - the 'expertsearch' email address is simply re-directed to the new ISP email address.

'Email to Fax'

Internet technology continues to develop at a frenzied pace. ExpertSearch Ltd keeps abreast of the latest technical developments and is constantly improving the service which we provide to our subscribers. As an example of this, in partnership with Demon - the UK's leading business ISP - we have recently developed a facility whereby it is possible for an email to be sent to any expert witness whose fax number is displayed in the 'Online Directory', the email message being delivered as a fax message - simply by using the email address :-

fax.firstname.lastname@expertsearch.co.uk

This facility is particularly useful for the expert witness who does not have an email account or who chooses not to make his email address public - or where the sender does not know the expert's current email address. In addition, the facility also has a wider appeal due to the 'immediacy' of the fax message and the fact that a fax message is less likely to be inadvertently overlooked, deleted or misfiled than an email message. For this reason many expert witnesses request correspondents to send important work-related email messages via fax. Please try this facility out for yourself - it works!