Doesn't work for me. I get an email with no actual link to the audio message (neither in the plain text part, nor in the HTML (yuck) part).
Show HN: Call emails, not phones
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not a guarantee they can make, since they're suggesting you share the link that contains your email address in order for people to call you. To be honest, I'm more comfortable giving out my phone number than my primary contact email address. On the other hand, it's much easier to set up a throwaway email than a throwaway phone number.
Right, Dialzoo does not share email addresses publicly. But it's to the users of the service to share their dialzoo url including their email. Like http://dialzoo/your@email.com Our assumption is that people would use email that are consider public info already, and share that. Perhaps this is more relevant for public profiles such as - business website - public social profiles like linkedin. - facebook - google +
Couldn't you do a hash of the email?
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#24I think this is a neat idea. It brings up some questions about telemarketing and spam. I am not familiar with telemarketing laws but I'm a little more familiar with the spam laws. Now that the message is going through an email, I wonder if someone could get into trouble for breaking a spam law where a phone call would have been fully legal.
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#25This site is vulnerable to Heartbleed: https://filippo.io/Heartbleed/#dialzoo.me
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, Dialzoo does not share email addresses publicly. But it's to the users of the service to share their dialzoo url including their email. Like http://dialzoo/your@email.com Our assumption is that people would use email that are consider public info already, and share that. Perhaps this is more relevant for public profiles such as - business website - public social profiles like linkedin. - facebook - google +
Couldn't you do a hash of the email? http://dialzoo.com/67135a14d3ac4f1369633dd006d6efec
The search space of email is small enough that hashing is not a good solution.
http://www.developer.it/post/gravatars-why-publishing-your-e... http://archive.hack.lu/2013/dbongard_hacklu_2013.pdf
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#27For me this is a magical combination of two unpopular modes of communication. There's a reason texting/chat is so popular, people don't like email and they don't like phone calls.
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#28This was super-confusing, at least to me. It uses the noun "email", which to me means "an email message ", as if it meant "an email address ". I found it very annoying and confusing. Perhaps I'm just old, though.
I've definitely heard "give me your email" when asking for someone's email address. It's not uncommon at all.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Couldn't you do a hash of the email? http://dialzoo.com/67135a14d3ac4f1369633dd006d6efec
The search space of email is small enough that hashing is not a good solution. http://www.developer.it/post/gravatars-why-publishing-your-e... http://archive.hack.lu/2013/dbongard_hacklu_2013.pdf
They can add a random seed to the hash to increase the search space. In fact it doesn't need to be a hash - they could just store a random string.
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#30Make it paid, and you might have a fighting chance with executives and salespeople. Executives get cold-called AND cold-emailed by terrible salespeople all the time. Know why? Both media are essentially free.
Paying would create a much-needed quality barrier in these irreplaceable but miserable media.
Free isn't always better...how are you planning to make money anyway?