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Comment by roryhughes | Hacker News Reader

It would be handy if you could attach a js or css file to the email which would be used in the published page.

This is an excellent idea—I've received many requests from people who want to be able to use the BeeLine Reader browser plugins to read their email. This would accomplish that goal. Even without a JS/CSS helper, this is still really awesome because people can use this tool in combination with our browser plugins. Please contact me (nick@BeeLineReader.com) if you end up allowing JS/CSS helpers so that we can work with you to make ours compatible. Thanks again for this awesome product!

I'm sorry, you have written a very similar message to the comments section of the given link. It smells spam.

What do you mean? Yes, he posted another message endorsing mailp.in in the comments and here he's reaching out for a collaboration. I don't see why it would be spam just because he's mentioning his product.

It seems primarily because his comments aren't adding significant value without mentioning his product. Take out the product, and it's basically "Awesome!".

A low value comment + product mentions = spammy smell.

Seems like I am getting downvoted for some reason. Let me clarify a bit of things here. The product he is talking about is a browser plugin, which is something that claims that speeds up reading by coloring the sentences.

This has no relation whatsoever with the OP's product. It is saying, "Hey great stuff! Check out my unrelated product in the link, maybe we can collaborate."

I doesn't smell spam; it is spam.

I don't agree. He purposed how they could collaborate. Bee Line Reader is a great tool which a lot of people on HN use and not something random. I definitely see how it could be used with mailp.in.

wow, really sorry to have set off your spam-alert. I think their solution is really awesome and a great complement to our tool. I couldn't have made my point without mentioning what my browser plugin does, which is why I included the name (but no link here, mind). If two posts makes me a spammer, then so be it, but I'm mostly just trying to encourage mailpin to consider the opportunity to collaborate with browser plugin companies, which is something they may not have thought of.

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