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http://mailp.in/dashboard/reply/*ID*
Where I replaced the actual id with "ID". So I copied the ID from that referrer and visited:
It seems you don't strip out quite a lot of stuff, including script tags and meta refresh tags.
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- Where's your privacy policy detailed? With the nature of the service (gathering email addresses etc) you could head-off lots of questions with that.
- A default serif font drags anything down. For me personally I'd prefer another font.
- You sensibly replace emails, but other links like 'unsubscribe' remain intact, which could be problematic (don't worry, you'll still get your costco emails although it can sometimes lead to real emails/names).
- I guess grouping and parsing is the next step, i.e. process them and provide features around them a la tripit. Is that the direction you might take it?
"Where's your privacy policy detailed? With the nature of the service (gathering email addresses etc) you could head-off lots of questions with that."
We haven't worked out a formal privacy policy ... but of course, user privacy is our top priority! We won't use user emails for anything else. In fact, from the post page, you can't find your email address.
"A default serif font drags anything down. For me personally I'd prefer another font."
We are still improving on the UI ... We would appreciate if you tell us your preferred font :)
"You sensibly replace emails, but other links like 'unsubscribe' remain intact, which could be problematic (don't worry, you'll still get your costco emails although it can sometimes lead to real emails/names)"
We also take care of unsubscribe part if the unsubscribe url contains your email address.
"I guess grouping and parsing is the next step, i.e. process them and provide features around them a la tripit. Is that the direction you might take it?"
Definitely there are many possibilities to explore from what we have right now. We'd like to hear users comments / critiques / suggestions first.
For next steps and parsing, it really depends on if you want to store a user graph your end, i.e. do you want to also initiate the 'share' and know who is looking at the link? If you do then the features go in one direction (collaboration, conversations, actionable stuff) but if you don't want that then it's sort of a different animal (formatting, i.e. galleries, content suggestions and the like).
For a font, Helvetica Neue or anything in that family is all the rage ;)
Your positionning is certainly superior though, because 'mail2web' is simpler and more fun than 'yet another blogging platform that uses email'...
I never got around to turning attachments on because I was afraid of the hosting costs; how do you plan on dealing with those?
"I never got around to turning attachments on because I was afraid of the hosting costs; how do you plan on dealing with those?"
As long as users don't delete their posts, we keep them (including attachments) there. If we are running out of storage space, we can add more machines :)
Also how will you handle spam? Just post it regardless unless or until volume becomes excessive?
Abusers will abuse, and it seems that you are only going to consider restrictions and security overall after it happens.
Set some alerts so you at least get a warning before the server goes down.
(Checks picture...)
Picture contains:
"This picture shows how we created this page:"
Picture of picture contains...
...there it breaks. But you were on to something recursive for a while.
And mailp.in solves that issue perfectly. If someone sends you an email that is chock full of content that should be shared, just mailpin it.
One question: how long are the URL and the content preserved?
"One question: how long are the URL and the content preserved?"
You decide. If you don't delete it yourself, it'll be there forever. And it's private. You decide who to share with. You decide whether to keep it or not.
We will commit to improving mailpin, making it a robust and useful service.
Is there a way you can have sub-domains such as [username].mailp.in/[post address]
Perhaps the username is a hash of the email address to keep the privacy of the user. Not a deal-breaker but it'd be nice.
The same reason they show advertisements. By installing these plugins they get a share of affiliate income or other louchy schemes.
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"The created web page is private to you."
If I understand the system correctly, isn't that misleading? Once you share the link with someone, they could share it with the whole world. I.e. you share full control with every person you share the link with. Kinda like the privacy you get with email (no more) so maybe @mailpin could correct the description to reflect that.
This has no relation whatsoever with the OP's product. It is saying, "Hey great stuff! Check out my unrelated product in the link, maybe we can collaborate."
I doesn't smell spam; it is spam.
A low value comment + product mentions = spammy smell.
I'm wondering because I need something for a devops project that can show spam inline in a webpage. Obviously this is dangerous because it could spread malware so what could mailp.in be using to avoid spreading malware like this?
I'm not sure what to use this for though. Who would look at the website when it just contains what was in the mail a minute ago anyway?
1. Ad hoc image album. Put a bunch of images as attachments in an email and send to p@mailp.in to create a simple page.
2. Forward company receipts to p@mailp.in and create a page, and share the link in coworkers ... (this sounds weird ... but it works well for us ...)
3. Forward marketing spams to create page, and publicly share such pages to denounce those spammers :)
4. Forward paper acceptance latters or other letters to create pages, and share them to show off -- vanity!
5. Ad hoc blogging ... Don't want to have an account, don't want people to follow me. But occasionally, we still want to say something and share to Friends that we really trust.
6. Create a playlist of youtube videos. Put a bunch of youtube links and send to p@mailp.in. A page with embedded videos will be created. We don't have youtube accounts ... sorry ... but still want to share a bunch of videos with friends ...
7. Tweet more than 140 characters. Create a page with short url, and tweet!
There would be more use cases. The point is, we want something dead simple. No registration, no app (well, email client is still needed ...), and private.
If you simply create a post page and keep it to yourself or share in a closed social network (e.g., IM, facebook private group ...) that cannot be indexed by google, then you are good.
That said, you decide to what degree you want to share your page.
You may want to send a follow up email with a quick link for the user to add a noindex meta tag to the page, or even password protect it.
We just did a release to address this problem. Now, <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> is added for each single page.
And one of the best is that you can keep your data with emails an decentralised it.
Very nice works, the idea is pleasant i'am thinking on a private open source network. Would you mind if i use your idea ?
A maling list where you can publish things more easily ....
Did you read this ? http://mobisocial.stanford.edu/papers/mrprivacy.pdf
Should be "Your email client...."?
But definitely we have alerts and closely monitor to prevent something bad happens.