Re:Show HN: Pubmail.io
by yellowapple on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @06:48PM
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Can you answer the initial question about legal jurisdiction, though? This is still not clear in the About page, and if you're including a checkbox (that's thankfully optional) asking if one's use of Pubmail will be for "legal purposes", it's generally a good idea what "legal" means in the context of the site. "Legal" in terms of American law? British law? Iranian law? Somali law? Sharia law? UN law? Sealandic law?
Yeah, I mean, I don't honestly have an answer for that. I guess I should.
It basically means, "don't be a dick, don't harass, don't spam." I'm not a big fan of laws, but I am a big fan of common sense and decency, and that's all I want.
Re:Show HN: Pubmail.io
by yellowapple on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @08:19PM
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The answer would probably be the same answer as "Which country does this site operate from?", but IANAL.
Regardless, changing the text of that checkbox to what you mean - "I promise to refrain from being a jerk, harassing people, or spamming" - would make the question moot.
I wrote up an 'about' page here, but it's a bit lofty: https://pubmail.io/about/
I'd love it if a politician could use it, but I don't think that's going to happen in the near future, so this gives the public a tool to foce more transparency without the politicians/reps themselves having to commit to it.