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by fiatjaf 3398 days ago
Very nice. I would love to read a list of use-cases, but I'm ok if they don't exist, because this is just a nice hack.

Reminds of https://github.com/fiatjaf/questo.email

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Another creator here. We have no specific use cases, but the ideas floating around my head: 1) Leaking controversial conversations, whistleblowing, or simply sharing interesting emails. 2) Being one of the fastest ways to publish, could be a new blogging platform, especially for the older generation who is more comfortable with email. 3) Transparency for businesses/government through public archiving.

I would love to hear other ideas.

> 1) Leaking controversial conversations, whistleblowing, or simply sharing interesting emails.

Hmmm if this is a goal you should support encryption.

Perhaps provide a public key and have an auto decryption mechanism with your private key.

Thanks. The idea was simply - what if you could publish a page by sending an email, but several use cases have come to mind since:

- The quickest way to create a simple web page. - Blogging without having to create an account. - Organisational email transparency - either within organisations, or publicly. - Archiving email threads. - Sharing long threads of correspondence without adding to the thread further.