kind of the social equivalent of the million $ website
A huge listserv. Each day, only one random person can write to it.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
If that were the case they'd accept it and just remove the +spam_source before selling the address.
Likely the email-checking regex just doesn't include that character
Exactly this. Just a few weeks ago, I noticed that this was the case for an application I'm maintaining at work.
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#33Question for someone who's already signed up: What's the process to unsubscribe?
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#34This is not going to end well. Mark my words.
Temptation to game an access to a 1 mil opt-in mail list is very real. From auctioning a chance to write, to product placements, to ads, to god knows what else. That's not to get into messages on highly controversial subjects.
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#35This is a great social experiment. What happens when you give a normal person a voice magnified far beyond what they are used to. Will the self-promote? Share a social message? Spam like crazy? I for one am interested in finding out.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
sigh Lawyers ruin everything.
In this case, as in most cases where this accusation is thrown around, the lawyers are merely agents of the people actually doing the ruining. Also, trademarks are not bad things.
>the lawyers are merely agents of the people actually doing the ruining.
And without lawyers, trademark laws would likely not be of the scale or complexity that they are now. But that's another rant :)
>Also, trademarks are not bad things.
In this case, I tend to disagree. Especially as "listserv" should be genericized by this point.
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#37Seems like one of the people behind this, joshbegley, is hellbanned on HN. His comments on this page so far are just showing up dead. Any ideas as to why this is? It makes me wonder about entering my email address on his site. Edit: If you don't have showdead on, he says that plus signs are now accepted in email addresses[0], and that they won't be serving ads, and are looking for an inexpensive way to send mail[1].…
apologies if this is a dumb question, but what does 'hellbanned' mean? i understand folks' concern about dubious intentions, but if it's any consolation, this is merely a class project from Clay Shirky's Designing Conversational Spaces class at NYU.
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#38A clever enough idea that I decided to sign up, but my question is not on the FAQ. How many have signed up so far?
Judging from the comments here it would be 3 people.
The person with the + sign in his email.
The one who wants to know how to unsubscribe.
And you.
Ok, I'm just kidding.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
In this case, as in most cases where this accusation is thrown around, the lawyers are merely agents of the people actually doing the ruining. Also, trademarks are not bad things.
>the lawyers are merely agents of the people actually doing the ruining. And without lawyers, trademark laws would likely not be of the scale or complexity that they are now. But that's another rant :) >Also, trademarks are not bad things. In this case, I tend to disagree. Especially as "listserv" should be genericized by this point.
> Especially as "listserv" should be genericized by this point.
Have you read the history? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV
It appears as though the author of the software decided to commercialize it and now you fault him for trademarking it? I think you're kind of baseless in your argument here.
Update: I don't fault the guy for taking some software, re-writing it and then commercializing it. If the original authors didn't want to trademark the name or even protest the trademark application, then that is their fault.
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#40Seems like one of the people behind this, joshbegley, is hellbanned on HN. His comments on this page so far are just showing up dead. Any ideas as to why this is? It makes me wonder about entering my email address on his site. Edit: If you don't have showdead on, he says that plus signs are now accepted in email addresses[0], and that they won't be serving ads, and are looking for an inexpensive way to send mail[1].…
apologies if this is a dumb question, but what does 'hellbanned' mean? i understand folks' concern about dubious intentions, but if it's any consolation, this is merely a class project from Clay Shirky's Designing Conversational Spaces class at NYU.
Hellbanned means the poster sees his own comments as normal, but no one else can see them. Someone who is hellbanned typically does not know they are banned until someone tells them (or they eventually get suspicious of no one commenting on their comments or up/downvoting).
Frankly I find the idea of hellbanning childish, but it has a long history on the internet.