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How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service

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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.

It seems fine at the moment, just a (crappy) landing page. Still, I would never open an email from such domain.

The logohead says Goatse✉Mail. I would go so far as to say I'm just the tiniest bit disappointed that their symbol is, as far as I can tell, innuendo free...

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.

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.

Anyone know if he's still honoring the names we reserved back during the original SomethingAwful thread?

> Ars spoke with the webmaster behind the reborn goatse.cx site, whom we'll call "Bob.

that one cracked me up. for the uninitiated, "bob goatse" was one of the names people used to refer to the goatse guy.

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.

I can see a tagline like:

<name>@goatse.cx - When you really want to say where your words are coming from . . . .

I cringe at the thought of someone actually using an account there. . . .

Nice try, but there's no way I'm clicking that link.

No thanks! I'm sure this is a great article and all, but I'm good!

Goatse.cx: "What the internet could have been"

Shudder...

Hey guys, Bob from Goatse here. For the record, there is no email spam blocking on the domain at present.

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.

That's not obvious. goatse.cx has been blocked by web filters, but as far as I know there's no history of spam coming from that domain.

I'll definitely throw five bucks for an account.

"Goatse is a piece of the Internet generation's cultural legacy" Highlight of the article.

OpenDNS still has the site categorized in: Nudity, Pornography

what kind of mails can I expect as a customer?

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