Spamnesty
Productivity
email tool
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
18 positive, 40 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 70 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Idea: 9 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun and funny concept
From 3 comments
This is hilarious
secfirstmd on HNLove it, good work!
amga_ on HNThis is pretty awesome!
mxuribe on HN
Useful application of AI
From 1 comment
Finally an actually useful application for AI! No perfect result is required and this is also not something you want actual humans to do.
jvdh on HN
Objections
Emails may be flagged as spam or cause forward refusals
From 2 comments
I'm guessing the emails this generates will become flagged as spam themselves. Do spammers use spam filters too or would that prevent them from getting replies?
jasonkostempski on HNAhah, this is fun :) But please someone, let google know this exists. I just had a forward refused by gmail because "it contains viruses", and I realize I've forwarded 5 spams…
oelmekki on HN
Service has DNS and availability problems
From 3 comments
https://spa.mnesty.com/ = server not found. Anyone else seeing this?
yekim on HNI forwarded an email and got a response, but https://spa.mnesty.com/ doesn't load for me
iopq on HNIt turns out that some DNS servers cached the old nameservers and are now failing to resolve those. It's unfortunate, but all we can do is wait for the cache to expire :(
StavrosK on HN
Replies sent immediately look suspicious
From 1 comment
There is one major problem : the answers are sent immediatly after receiving the email. This is obviously suspicious, considering most of the mails require at least a few minutes…
jnaddef on HN
Requests
Support more email clients and forward headers
From 2 comments
I've tried forwarding a spam email from Apple Mail, but I got a response that it didn't work out. This is the raw email message I sent - http://pastebin.com/qNwT04my
vytis on HNThank you, it looks like your mail client adds forward headers in a way Spamnesty doesn't understand yet. I'll try to fix it soon. EDIT: Can you add an issue to the tracker with…
StavrosK on HN
Multi-language support
From 1 comment
Is there any way to have multi-language support?
jnaddef on HN
Chrome extension
From 1 comment
We need a Chrome extension for this!! I would create it myself .. but there's not any public API.
amga_ on HN
Questions
How are replies tailored to the spam?
From 1 comment
How is the bot tailoring the replies, for example > Hello, I have wired the funds you asked for. Could we please proceed to the next stage? Daniel Wong CEO, MNesty, LLC Is that a…
djhworld on HN
Will forwarded emails be flagged as spam?
From 1 comment
I'm guessing the emails this generates will become flagged as spam themselves. Do spammers use spam filters too or would that prevent them from getting replies?
jasonkostempski on HN
Alternatives named
Lenny telemarketer-wasting bot
From 2 comments
See also, The AI that wastes telemarketers time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13013327 And this script that plays what sounds like an old man losing his memory:…
hellbanner on HNSomeone posted about Lenny [1] the other day. I've had fun listening to him on youtube waste telemarketers' time. [1]…
estefan on HN
AI that wastes telemarketers' time
From 1 comment
See also, The AI that wastes telemarketers time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13013327 And this script that plays what sounds like an old man losing his memory:…
hellbanner on HN