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Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

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Post by nickconfer »

mailpin wrote: post #37
bussiere wrote: post #36

Do you know if google index your pages ? and how it can find all the pages or links ?

If you put your link to public places like hacker news, then google will find it. If you simply create a post page and keep it to yourself or share in a closed social network (e.g., IM, facebook private group ...) that cannot be indexed by google, then you are good. That said, you decide to what degree you want to share your page.

This is not correct. With Google now having Chrome and other tools, there are many ways for Google to find out a URL exists.

You may want to send a follow up email with a quick link for the user to add a noindex meta tag to the page, or even password protect it.

Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

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Post by jon2512chua »

mailpin wrote: post #26
bambax wrote: post #22

Good! I created a similar thing last year when Posterous died; it sill exists and although it never got any traction I still use it for my blog; it's called urgeous.com and has an API that lets users use it as a service (posts can be displayed from your own domain while being hosted by Urgeous). Your positionning is certainly superior though, because 'mail2web' is simpler and more fun than 'yet another blogging platf…

Thanks for your support! "I never got around to turning attachments on because I was afraid of the hosting costs; how do you plan on dealing with those?" As long as users don't delete their posts, we keep them (including attachments) there. If we are running out of storage space, we can add more machines :)

Are you guarding against malicious users who send automated emails containing large attachments?

Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

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Post by scoj »

mailpin wrote: post #17
scoj wrote: post #3

I like the idea. I can't think of a specific use-case for me yet, but email integrated apps are often pretty cool and make for easier adoption.

We (as developers of mailpin) use the services ourselves: 1. Ad hoc image album. Put a bunch of images as attachments in an email and send to p@mailp.in to create a simple page. 2. Forward company receipts to p@mailp.in and create a page, and share the link in coworkers ... (this sounds weird ... but it works well for us ...) 3. Forward marketing spams to create page, and publicly share such pages to denounce those s…

Thanks for the update of what went through your minds. Keep track of how customers use it. You will likely be surprised by what actually is done with it.

Re: Show HN: Turn an email to a web page

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Post by mailpin »

nickconfer wrote: post #45
mailpin wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you put your link to public places like hacker news, then google will find it. If you simply create a post page and keep it to yourself or share in a closed social network (e.g., IM, facebook private group ...) that cannot be indexed by google, then you are good. That said, you decide to what degree you want to share your page.

This is not correct. With Google now having Chrome and other tools, there are many ways for Google to find out a URL exists. You may want to send a follow up email with a quick link for the user to add a noindex meta tag to the page, or even password protect it.

Thanks!

We just did a release to address this problem. Now, is added for each single page.

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