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cfleeon Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application

Take a look at DMARC. [1] The webpage is horribly ugly, but essentially, it allows a domain to declare that all their outgoing mail are DKIM-signed and SPF-passed.

Paypal and eBay do this. Gmail filters out any DKIM-fail or SPF-fail mails purporting to be from @paypal.com and sends it to spam, with 100% accuracy. Gmail also puts the little 'key' icon next to the sender name, but that's not really important, the point is that any and all fraudulent emails are filtered out with unerring accuracy.

Thus, we don't need to use PGP or whatever, which needs to be handled at the client level. DKIM + DMARC is already here and working at the server level. You don't need to wait for your favourite email client to adopt DMARC.

Yes, if people send emails without going through that SMTP server etc etc.. that's a problem, but also solvable/solved.

[1] http://dmarc.org/

cfleeon Startups, Fix Your "From" Field

'Usually' but definitely not always. Account ID is also usually at the application level, while Message-ID originates lower, at the mailserver level. When the app posts something off to the mailserver, how is it supposed to get the Message-ID back?

At least with the cruft, bounces are just handed back to the app to deal with.

cfleeon Startups, Fix Your "From" Field

One annoying thing is that some programs want you to separate different email addresses with semicolons and some with commas. It's another hassle to translate between those two conventions.

cfleeon Hacker News clone for Singapore

You might have heard of Fusion Garage - now associated with CrunchPad/TechCrunch.

cfleeon Reusable static sheets that turn walls (or any surface) into a whiteboard.

I wonder how effective the static remains over time. Does anyone have any experience with this? Otherwise it does look like a pretty good product.

cfleeon What if YouTube made the black empty space white? [PIC]

Is the poster trying to make a point other than that it's more aesthetically pleasing to have it white?

cfleeon Brainstorm HN: Outlandish Startup Ideas Pool

This just reminds me of the Half Bakery, it's also got a whole ton of crazy, outlandish, unrealistic ideas that won't work. Otherwise known as brainstorming, yes?

www.halfbakery.com

cfleeon Ask YC: My school wants to shut down my app. How should I respond?

In which case wouldn't the traffic overload issue be resolved? 1 request/min seems a far cry from ~130 requests/min, and quite a reasonable compromise.