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How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service

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Re: How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service

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Post by gt384u »

lmm wrote: post #2

Even after all these years, I can't help but assume this is all a giant trick to get people to visit the site again. Like the article says, my fingers refuse to type the domain.

This is how I first learned about CSS circa 2001. More importantly, you could provide your browser user-defined CSS.

My first entry? Making any link from goatse.cx struck-out and brown.

Re: How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service

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Post by bryanlarsen »

tnuc wrote: post #4

It wouldn't be a very useful webmail service, accessing the website would be blocked by most firewalls.

Not a problem, unless your firewall blocks gmail etc. Most people will access their goatse email through gmail or another service.

Re: How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service

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Post by jjcm »

lmm wrote: post #2

Even after all these years, I can't help but assume this is all a giant trick to get people to visit the site again. Like the article says, my fingers refuse to type the domain.

I remember during the heat of the youtube audio mute massacre, someone posted the rickroll video along with the title, "Youtube mutes rickroll". We all fell for it.

Re: How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service

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Post by imglorp »

dysoco wrote: post #12

I'm assuming all the mails will get probably marked as spam and/or blacklisted by email clients?

Sure will. Everybody's quick to add a questionable domain to a blacklist, but nobody's too quick to remove them.

ALSO, corporate/school/family/etc filters will block browsing to the site if you want to use a webmail UI.

So in all, this might be fun to mess with your friends, but not too useful otherwise.

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