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Posting by email makes complete sense. Think of how many office workers spring upon something they want to post, but opening a webbrowser may be tracked or thei
by jgoewert 16y ago
Posting by email makes complete sense. Think of how many office workers spring upon something they want to post, but opening a webbrowser may be tracked or their boss may see or something.
Though, having it be the driving selling feature... I would have found that quite ridiculous. But, what do I know, I am over 30. My ideas about what the current youth generation want is outdated. I didn't even think like most of them when I was that age.
- Sukotto 16y agoPosting by email makes complete sense Yes... in hindsight.
- BrandonM 16y agoI honestly thought that blogging by email made a lot of sense before I heard of Posterous. Of course, their implementation of it is pretty great. Another blogging interface that makes sense to me is a message board. Each blogger would have a forum (subforums would be allowed and would represent all of that blogger's blogs). Each thread (the first post of the thread) in the forum represents a blog post, and others' replies to the thread become the blog comments. I think that idea might have some legs, as it could help a lot with discoverability. But what do I know?
- jgoewert 16y agoI didn't know it was so new of a feature. I've been using email article publishing since back when PostNuke was the hot web publishing tool. But, it seems to be wrapping around as the "new hot tech" again because this generation of users has forgotten about it.
- famfam 16y agoRight, because your boss couldn't possibly be tracking Exchange Server. On that note, it would be a neat trick if Posterous handled encrypted mail...
- loup-vaillant 16y agoI have a simple counter. A personal smtp server, set to listen some non-standard port, set up to do TLS. The mail isn't encrypted, and your boss can still say that you sent mails if he dig up a bit, but he won't spy the content of the e-mails anyway. Just don't make the mistake I did: forget to set up your imap server to use TLS as well.
- jgoewert 16y agoWell, yeah, you always have tracking. What I was more imagining is where if you are in some cube-hell and your boss walked by and saw you on some website typing away, it is easily recognizable. But if you had Outlook up, typing away, it isn't near as noticeable. One of those office work things, sort of like how old video games had a Boss key. I've seen enough people doing slack-off stuff like this.