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

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Post by umurkontaci »

Kiro wrote: post #8
umurkontaci wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry, you have written a very similar message to the comments section of the given link. It smells spam.

What do you mean? Yes, he posted another message endorsing mailp.in in the comments and here he's reaching out for a collaboration. I don't see why it would be spam just because he's mentioning his product.

Seems like I am getting downvoted for some reason. Let me clarify a bit of things here. The product he is talking about is a browser plugin, which is something that claims that speeds up reading by coloring the sentences.

This has no relation whatsoever with the OP's product. It is saying, "Hey great stuff! Check out my unrelated product in the link, maybe we can collaborate."

I doesn't smell spam; it is spam.

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

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Post by bdirgo »

I know not logging in is the basic premise of your website, but I'd also like to be able to read more than just the one post I found written by that author. Rather than search his tweets, and facebook posts, and any emails he's ever sent me for a mailp.in link.

Is there a way you can have sub-domains such as [username].mailp.in/[post address]

Perhaps the username is a hash of the email address to keep the privacy of the user. Not a deal-breaker but it'd be nice.

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

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Post by Kiro »

umurkontaci wrote: post #71
Kiro wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean? Yes, he posted another message endorsing mailp.in in the comments and here he's reaching out for a collaboration. I don't see why it would be spam just because he's mentioning his product.

Seems like I am getting downvoted for some reason. Let me clarify a bit of things here. The product he is talking about is a browser plugin, which is something that claims that speeds up reading by coloring the sentences. This has no relation whatsoever with the OP's product. It is saying, "Hey great stuff! Check out my unrelated product in the link, maybe we can collaborate." I doesn't smell spam; it is spam.

I don't agree. He purposed how they could collaborate. Bee Line Reader is a great tool which a lot of people on HN use and not something random. I definitely see how it could be used with mailp.in.

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

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Post by mailpin »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #60

So I tested this with https://emailprivacytester.com/ . I didn't get an automated response with a link. However, I noticed that somebody had viewed the email using an iPhone. So I scanned my logs to grab the referer from the callbacks and it was: http://mailp.in/dashboard/reply/*ID* Where I replaced the actual id with " ID ". So I copied the ID from that referrer and visited: http://mailp.in/*ID* It seems you don't s…

Thanks for your testing! We have fixed the script / meta tag strip problem. We keep improving our code base, making sure emails are rendered correctly on web pages. We won't use user data for anything else.
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