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Maybe HN needs a basic personal messaging system?

• lewisl9029 12y ago
  I'd like to see this as an alternative. This post prompted me to add a contact email (obfuscated to hopefully guard against automated scraping), but we really shouldn't have to do this.
  • conductz 12y ago
    ...and thus fulfilling Zawinski's law of software development [0]: “Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.” [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_law_of_software_envelopment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_la...
  • tomjen3 12y ago
    I have had a contact email for a very long time, but I haven't noticed any spam on it (gmail seems to have a great filter). That said I have received a few emails that were the result of HN comments so I would strongly suggest adding one in.