FWDitON.com - Chain Mail Comes Together

Chain mail—you’ve seen them: adorable dogs and cats making impossibly cute big eyed faces and poses, zodiac zen emails promising to tell you who you really are, drunken escapades, the dangers of cell phones and driving, and the list goes on. Forwarded email is an amusement to some and an incredible annoyance to others. If happen to enjoy them, you might like the new site FWDitON. FWDitON is like digg, but for chain mail. You find something cute, insightful, or funny, just forward it on to their site at submit@fwditon.com. You don’t need to register to do so. You then rate the emails you like best. This way, you can check out what the most popular emails and emailed videos are. The front page shows the latest and greatest. You can peruse by Top Fav’d, Most Viewed, Top Rated of all time and Top Rated in the 30 days, or search by tags. FWDitON also offers users a number of ways to share emails directly on site. You’ll of course have to forward this on to 50 of your closest friends for it to work though.

“FWDitOn.com is a repository for all of the funny emails circulating the Internet. We call these emails "FWD's" (pronounced as "forwards") due to the long list of "FWD: FWD: FW: FWD:" which these emails have in their subject lines.
FWDitON.com enables you to read, rate and share these email forwards.”

FWDitON takes the popular digg model and brings it to chain mails. This is good if you like digg and chain mails. You can check out what’s hot in office cubicles nationwide. It’s certainly a niche site, but an entertaining one at that.

Can FWDitON compete with digg, especially if digg goes beyond news related stories? Will users go out of the way to use FWDitON vs their own easily accessible work emails? How will FWDitON deal with competition?