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How goatse.cx went from shock site to webmail service
- lmm 14y agoEven after all these years, I can't help but assume this is all a giant trick to get people to visit the site again. Like the article says, my fingers refuse to type the domain.
- duiker101 14y agoIt seems fine at the moment, just a (crappy) landing page. Still, I would never open an email from such domain.
- evoxed 14y agoThe logohead says Goatse✉Mail. I would go so far as to say I'm just the tiniest bit disappointed that their symbol is, as far as I can tell, innuendo free...
- gt384u 14y agoThis is how I first learned about CSS circa 2001. More importantly, you could provide your browser user-defined CSS. My first entry? Making any link from goatse.cx struck-out and brown.
- jjcm 14y agoI remember during the heat of the youtube audio mute massacre, someone posted the rickroll video along with the title, "Youtube mutes rickroll". We all fell for it.
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- tnuc 14y agoIt wouldn't be a very useful webmail service, accessing the website would be blocked by most firewalls.
- bryanlarsen 14y agoNot a problem, unless your firewall blocks gmail etc. Most people will access their goatse email through gmail or another service.
- DrPhish 14y agoGoatse.cx: "What the internet could have been" Shudder...
- wahnfrieden 14y agoAnyone know if he's still honoring the names we reserved back during the original SomethingAwful thread?
- emeraldd 14y agoI can see a tagline like: <name>@goatse.cx - When you really want to say where your words are coming from . . . . I cringe at the thought of someone actually using an account there. . . .
- zem 14y ago> Ars spoke with the webmaster behind the reborn goatse.cx site, whom we'll call "Bob. that one cracked me up. for the uninitiated, "bob goatse" was one of the names people used to refer to the goatse guy.
- gcb 14y agoi'm pretty sure that whole article is a troll atempt to make people go check out the "webmail" service on goatse.cx... i found muself urging to check the site out several times while reading it, but will not. fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. ...the lenghts some trolls will go. -- gcb@lemonparty.com
- dysoco 14y agoI'm assuming all the mails will get probably marked as spam and/or blacklisted by email clients?
- imglorp 14y agoSure will. Everybody's quick to add a questionable domain to a blacklist, but nobody's too quick to remove them. ALSO, corporate/school/family/etc filters will block browsing to the site if you want to use a webmail UI. So in all, this might be fun to mess with your friends, but not too useful otherwise.
- imaxwell 14y agoThat's not obvious. goatse.cx has been blocked by web filters, but as far as I know there's no history of spam coming from that domain.
- nvr219 14y agoI'll definitely throw five bucks for an account.
- jeffehobbs 14y agoNo thanks! I'm sure this is a great article and all, but I'm good!
- andyjohnson0 14y agoNice try, but there's no way I'm clicking that link.
- mesm 14y agowhat kind of mails can I expect as a customer?
- mehulkar 14y ago"Goatse is a piece of the Internet generation's cultural legacy" Highlight of the article.
- kalmi10 14y agoOpenDNS still has the site categorized in: Nudity, Pornography
- zomgs 14y agoHey guys, Bob from Goatse here. For the record, there is no email spam blocking on the domain at present.