> It's just a fancy mailing list then? It's more of a social network built around email conversations. E.g. we make it easy to not only to leave comments and s

> It's just a fancy mailing list then? It's more of a social network built around email conversations. E.g. we make it easy to not only to leave comments and share on social, but also to embed threads within any other site. Unlike email lists, we're also designed to make it easy to share great conversations after the fact, rather than having everyone copied on every message as it happens. I think one good use case for the site is sharing the best conversations from otherwise private mailing lists. (With everyone's permission, or if the list specifically allows it.) > moving to a non-free storage format If you look at the API response for our threads, it's actually much easier to parse than any archival format. That said we're not (currently) an archival product; we don't store the original raw messages, and we don't output them into archival formats designed for longterm storage. I would like to integrate with some archival products in the future though. Right now when you donate your email archives to a university, they are only readable in the reading room of the university after signing an NDA with the librarian. I think we offer a good solution for making it easy to redact some of the more interesting threads and get them on the web, and I think a lot of that stuff would be super interesting.