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You Can't Afford To Stop Using Mail

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Re: You Can't Afford To Stop Using Mail

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I have to say that whilst your site is making some very bold claims, I think it's extremely clear what your goals are. Furthermore, I found it really engaging that your request for an invite form was a little more interesting than simply entering my email. It's nice you're offering a mini service around this, and furthermore the idea of running a mail check on a friend's mail account is a nice way of ensuring some virality.

Best of luck, and I really do hope you can solve the problems you outline. I can't wait to try it out!

Re: You Can't Afford To Stop Using Mail

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I have to say that whilst your site is making some very bold claims, I think it's extremely clear what your goals are. Furthermore, I found it really engaging that your request for an invite form was a little more interesting than simply entering my email. It's nice you're offering a mini service around this, and furthermore the idea of running a mail check on a friend's mail account is a nice way of ensuring some vi…

Wow! Thank you for such a comment. Probably the best thing I've ever read about what we're doing :)

It won't be easy but we can see it really happen. It needs to happen.

Stay in touch! - Premek

Re: You Can't Afford To Stop Using Mail

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> We have a strategy how to wipe out spam for good.

I don't love Gmail and I certainly don't love Google, but using Gmail "wiped out spam for good" for me.

In my experience, false positives are close to zero and false negatives extremely rare (and not very annoying), so how is spam not a solved problem?

Re: You Can't Afford To Stop Using Mail

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> We have a strategy how to wipe out spam for good. I don't love Gmail and I certainly don't love Google, but using Gmail "wiped out spam for good" for me. In my experience, false positives are close to zero and false negatives extremely rare (and not very annoying), so how is spam not a solved problem?

As usual with Google, they're still not handling multilingual situations too well. It has been a long time since I've seen any spam in English, but tens of mails in languages like Finnish and Georgian get through every day.

I wonder if the easiest solution would be a language blacklist. I have no legitimate reason to want to receive email in languages I don't understand.

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