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Re:Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email by tci22 on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @10:33AM (#3071032)
It is likely...but we don't want to weed emails in order to preserve the experience. You're still gonna get a lot of insightful discussion. But unfortunately, spam would come with the territory.
Re:Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email by kunday on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @10:42AM (#3071078)
Understandable. Wouldn't that mean that spam will roll very quickly to many email accounts? Wouldn't spam engines start picking up application emails as spam emails(assuming once some discussion goes rogue with spammers the email receivers mark the conversation as spam)? Or am i missing something here.
Re:Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email by tci22 on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @11:06AM (#3071203)
Thanks for your response. Just select from those email address that hold potential for interesting discussion and communicate with them directly. Forwarding enables you to pick and choose from people dropping in to comment on the topic.
Re:Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email by kunday on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @11:17AM (#3071262)
Cool. It does bring a new way of discussion to the table. But was wondering what would normally be an users behaviour? You could selectively reply to it, mute it or mark it as spam. Any trends data you got so far to throw light on this?
Re:Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email by tci22 on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @11:44AM (#3071407)
Honestly, only a couple people have emailed in so I can't offer you anything concrete. The goal is for users to reply to the forwards so that anyone involved in the topic is updated.
Re:Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email by bricestacey on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @10:40AM (#3071064)
I think you underestimate the sheer volume of spam.
Re:Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email by tci22 on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @10:45AM (#3071089)
If users want us to weed out emails that we feel are spam we would do it.

But hell, no one's used the site or email yet so we can't anticipate anything.

Re:Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email by tci22 on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @01:37PM (#3071947)
Update: so far no spam.
Re:Show HN: a social network conducted entirely through email by tci22 on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @10:41AM (#3071071)
Additionally, you could choose to just communicate with whomever the sender of the email is if you find their email interesting.