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Re: Vote up if you're refreshing your email once a minute today

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I've got a Sieve script running on my IMAP server, set to redirect to my phone any message from an address containing any of the strings "pg@", "tlb@", "rtm@", "x@", or "ycombinator". I also have my email here set to a subaddress, which is also included in the above forward. Points to anyone who understands Sieve semantics well enough to predict whether the message will get matched and redirected twice. Sieve happens…

I've got you beat. I built a robot last night (runs on Lisp and parts from Radio Shack) that constantly monitors the internet, my phone lines and packets going out of YC's office. As soon as my robot picks up a signal of interest it beams the messages directly to my HUD that I've been wearing ever since I sent my app in.

Hurray for over-engineered solutions! While you're at it, though, you might as well just have your robot slip inside YC and grab a copy of Arc--then it wouldn't just be Lisp, it would be Hundred Year Lisp!

Re: Vote up if you're refreshing your email once a minute today

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I've got a Sieve script running on my IMAP server, set to redirect to my phone any message from an address containing any of the strings "pg@", "tlb@", "rtm@", "x@", or "ycombinator". I also have my email here set to a subaddress, which is also included in the above forward. Points to anyone who understands Sieve semantics well enough to predict whether the message will get matched and redirected twice. Sieve happens…

I'm 300 meters away from YC in Mountain View, so the email doesn't have to travel as far through the intertubes to get to my inbox. Beat that!

Re: Vote up if you're refreshing your email once a minute today

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I've got a Sieve script running on my IMAP server, set to redirect to my phone any message from an address containing any of the strings "pg@", "tlb@", "rtm@", "x@", or "ycombinator". I also have my email here set to a subaddress, which is also included in the above forward. Points to anyone who understands Sieve semantics well enough to predict whether the message will get matched and redirected twice. Sieve happens…

I'm 300 meters away from YC in Mountain View, so the email doesn't have to travel as far through the intertubes to get to my inbox. Beat that!

I'm about a 100ms away from there so presumably you'll know before I do

Re: Vote up if you're refreshing your email once a minute today

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I've got a Sieve script running on my IMAP server, set to redirect to my phone any message from an address containing any of the strings "pg@", "tlb@", "rtm@", "x@", or "ycombinator". I also have my email here set to a subaddress, which is also included in the above forward. Points to anyone who understands Sieve semantics well enough to predict whether the message will get matched and redirected twice. Sieve happens…

I'm 300 meters away from YC in Mountain View, so the email doesn't have to travel as far through the intertubes to get to my inbox. Beat that!

Doesn't have to. But it sure might not get routed that way.

Re: Vote up if you're refreshing your email once a minute today

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GMail. It refreshes for me. Other than that - I'm trying to get some work done so I can get home at a reasonable hour and work some more on my startup.

I got a mail from GMAIL team asking me not to abuse Gmail by constantly refreshing it :D

Re: Vote up if you're refreshing your email once a minute today

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GMail. It refreshes for me. Other than that - I'm trying to get some work done so I can get home at a reasonable hour and work some more on my startup.

Gmail doesn't refresh that often! I think there is still a lag....keeeep refreshing!
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