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I don't think the goal of this project is to allow public officials to respond in public, but rather to avoid having to copy-paste email chains with public offi

I don't think the goal of this project is to allow public officials to respond in public, but rather to avoid having to copy-paste email chains with public officials when they stonewall or downright circumvent laws in what they believe is a private channel (traditional email). POP, SMTP and IMAP would seem contrary the whole idea of a public stream of email communication. The idea here is that reporters, investigators or concerned citizens can use a pubmail.io address to simply maintain public communication with a public official.

Mizza 11y ago
^^ Exactly! Wish I could make this clearer. I wrote up an 'about' page here, but it's a bit lofty: https://pubmail.io/about/ https://pubmail.io/about/ I'd love it if a politician could use it, but I don't think that's going to happen in the near future, so this gives the public a tool to foce more transparency without the politicians/reps themselves having to commit to it.
- yellowapple 11y ago
  Can you answer the initial question about legal jurisdiction, though? This is still not clear in the About page, and if you're including a checkbox (that's thankfully optional) asking if one's use of Pubmail will be for "legal purposes", it's generally a good idea what "legal" means in the context of the site. "Legal" in terms of American law? British law? Iranian law? Somali law? Sharia law? UN law? Sealandic law?
  - Mizza 11y ago
    Yeah, I mean, I don't honestly have an answer for that. I guess I should. It basically means, "don't be a dick, don't harass, don't spam." I'm not a big fan of laws, but I am a big fan of common sense and decency, and that's all I want.
    - yellowapple 11y ago
      The answer would probably be the same answer as "Which country does this site operate from?", but IANAL. Regardless, changing the text of that checkbox to what you mean - "I promise to refrain from being a jerk, harassing people, or spamming" - would make the question moot.
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hnyc 11y ago
> POP, SMTP and IMAP would seem contrary the whole idea of a public stream of email communication I disagree. I believe it would create for easier access to a public stream of email communication, in particular to the person who sent the email. Sure, there's an easy way to get a notification when one gets an email, but how about replying to it? If one could reply to the email from the notification email (and see the contents of the email), that would be going towards a better solution (in my opinion). But even better would be POP, SMTP, and IMAP support, for the easiest way of getting emails, checking them, sending them, replying to them, etc. POP, SMTP, and IMAP would not remove the web access and the public viewing of all emails, it would extend what has already been created.

Mizza 11y ago

^^ Exactly! Wish I could make this clearer. I wrote up an 'about' page here, but it's a bit lofty: https://pubmail.io/about/ https://pubmail.io/about/ I'd love it if a politician could use it, but I don't think that's going to happen in the near future, so this gives the public a tool to foce more transparency without the politicians/reps themselves having to commit to it.

yellowapple 11y ago
Can you answer the initial question about legal jurisdiction, though? This is still not clear in the About page, and if you're including a checkbox (that's thankfully optional) asking if one's use of Pubmail will be for "legal purposes", it's generally a good idea what "legal" means in the context of the site. "Legal" in terms of American law? British law? Iranian law? Somali law? Sharia law? UN law? Sealandic law?
- Mizza 11y ago
  Yeah, I mean, I don't honestly have an answer for that. I guess I should. It basically means, "don't be a dick, don't harass, don't spam." I'm not a big fan of laws, but I am a big fan of common sense and decency, and that's all I want.
  - yellowapple 11y ago
    The answer would probably be the same answer as "Which country does this site operate from?", but IANAL. Regardless, changing the text of that checkbox to what you mean - "I promise to refrain from being a jerk, harassing people, or spamming" - would make the question moot.

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hnyc 11y ago

> POP, SMTP and IMAP would seem contrary the whole idea of a public stream of email communication I disagree. I believe it would create for easier access to a public stream of email communication, in particular to the person who sent the email. Sure, there's an easy way to get a notification when one gets an email, but how about replying to it? If one could reply to the email from the notification email (and see the contents of the email), that would be going towards a better solution (in my opinion). But even better would be POP, SMTP, and IMAP support, for the easiest way of getting emails, checking them, sending them, replying to them, etc. POP, SMTP, and IMAP would not remove the web access and the public viewing of all emails, it would extend what has already been created.