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Ask HN: How do people send 'SPAM'?

If Azure, Amazon, Mailgun, Sendgrid etc all monitor their outgoing email traffic, how are people possibly getting around this this to send'SPAM' emails? Note: I understand people use bot-nets, but I'm interested in hearing what other techniques people use.Important: Let's not hate on the question and assume the questioner has evil intentions :)

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quite useful, great job
Re:Slack Acquires Screenhero (YC W13) on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @09:43PM (#8964022)
I still don't get how Slack is different than HipChat. In fact, I think Slack just copied the latter.

Seriously, am I missing something?

Re:Evernote Raises $20M from Japanese Media Giant Nikkei on Monday November 10, 2014 @09:55AM (#8583791)
Wait, Evernote raised $70M at a $1B valuation in 2012. This funding round seems low. Am I missing something?
Re:Fundraising Acceleration Is the New VC Investment Thesis on Sunday November 02, 2014 @03:59PM (#8548082)
Slack's marketing is genius. The whole play on making Email look bad is brilliant and many startups are following suit.

But to be quite frank Slack is making things a whole lot worse (for me only perhaps?). It's super distracting. I have to add a new app to my workflow (while maintaining email). And Slack is much more demanding (end up checking it much more the email). Too many notifications and msgs. It isn't as ground-breaking as they want us to believe.

I wonder how long it will take for others to feel the same way I do? (maybe I'm the outlier?)

Mr. Butterfield is doing a stellar job leading the wheel. Congrats!

Re:A Company That Got Rid of Email on Saturday September 27, 2014 @11:05PM (#8378817)
Excellent point. One thing that I'm noticing is that other tools are becoming just as busy as Email for me. At times I feel like there isn't a difference. The volume of email is what bothers me. But now if that volume is being transferred to Slack (sorry to point them out) I'm still stuck with the same problem. It's the people behind the tools which cause the problem IMHO :)
Re:Show HN: Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid on Saturday September 27, 2014 @08:30AM (#8376840)
Great product. Nice to see Howie start another startup (Remember Etacts?)
Re:BlackBerry, Under New Leadership, Unveils Its Newest Smartphone on Wednesday September 24, 2014 @05:27PM (#8364231)
I've heard internal employees calling this phone 'Fugly'; Fat and Ugly.
Re:OhLife is shutting down on Saturday September 20, 2014 @08:41PM (#8345978)
The neat thing with email is that you could just look in the 'Sent' folder and find all the emails you sent to Ohlife and see all your entries :)
Re:Simple Docker App Management for OS X on Wednesday September 03, 2014 @09:57AM (#8262989)
Isn't there a policy against repeat posts? (although I get the url's are diff)
Re:Email will last forever on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @01:34PM (#8258949)
Totally agree. Which is why I'm excited about the Gmail API and Inboxapp
Re:Email will last forever on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @12:17PM (#8258454)
I think that a lot of "startups" are using the fantasy of an email-less world as a marketing tactic. I agree, I don't think email is going to disappear. Whether that is a good thing or bad, it's irrelevant
Re:Secure Mail for Gmail on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @12:10PM (#8258404)
Since email encryption seems like the topic of discussion today, I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in :)
Re:Random Startup Generator on Sunday August 31, 2014 @12:48AM (#8248440)
Novel. This is a project of Smore; which coincidentally does incredibly awesome design work with their products. This (ykombinator) is a good example.
Great job. I love tools that make things dead simple :)
Re:Show HN: I built an extension of JavaScript in a day on Saturday August 16, 2014 @05:04PM (#8187574)
Firstly, congratulations on making something useful in one day. Great job. I skimmed over the documentation/examples and this is excellent.

Ask HN: How do you validate something you've made is something people want?

I've been through this countless times. I throw together an awesome side project. People tell me they like it. But it dies off. Sometimes I think "maybe this wasn't something they really wanted?", but other times I find competing products doing the exact same thing and think "man, people do want this".How do you really validate what you've made is something people really want? I guess I would...

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Re:Transactional HTML Email Templates on Thursday August 14, 2014 @01:27AM (#8176202)
A side note: I really love Mailgun as a service :)