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Re:Show HN: An easy way to make mailing lists by loevborg on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @05:08PM (#6843536)
Very interesting. This could be a simple low-tech alternative to Facebook groups and such, given that not everybody has a Facebook account.

Conversely not everyone has a Gmail account either. Do people who join a zeromailer mailing list need to sign up to Google to use the service? That would make it less useful.

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Re:Show HN: An easy way to make mailing lists by jmharvey on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @05:12PM (#6843557)
No, anyone with an email address can be on a ZeroMailer list. For now, we're requiring a Google sign-in to create lists, in large part to curtail spam.
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Re:Show HN: An easy way to make mailing lists by QuantumGood on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @07:57PM (#6844342)
How does that curtail spam? It's not a lower barrier than a Captcha. Although it takes longer to set up a throwaway login, many spammers have lots of throwaway accounts on hand.
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Re:Show HN: An easy way to make mailing lists by loevborg on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @12:34PM (#6848517)
That sounds reasonable, thanks for the reply.
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