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ozh replied on May 17, 2009 10:53 to the idea "Subject line?" in scr.im:

Not all mail clients understand the subject parameter

ozh replied on April 22, 2009 18:33 to the idea "without captcha?" in scr.im:

The service is exactly designed NOT to do this. So, no, there won't be something like this.

ozh replied on April 20, 2009 06:10 to the problem "send yourself an email" in scr.im:

You probably got a misconfigured email client. This is a regular mailto: link. Nothing fancy.

ozh replied on April 19, 2009 09:26 to the praise "WIN" in scr.im:

cheers!

ozh replied on April 12, 2009 14:35 to the question "What if the spam bots know about this site?" in scr.im:

People running spambots would then have 2 options:

Option 1:
- craft a list of every possible keywords (aa, ab, ac... to zzzzzzzzzzzzz)
- check every scr.im URL with each keyword
- on each valid URL, brute force the captcha (ie submitting the first block of letters 15 times till accepted) to eventually get the email address

Option 2:
- ignoring scr.im because there's just plenty of emails you can harvest with much less efforts: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%2... or http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/ss... etc...

ozh replied on April 10, 2009 06:06 to the problem "Cute, but fails.." in scr.im:

Wow. You mean you could:
- generate a list of every possible keyword (aa, ab, ac,... till zzzzzzzzzzzz)
- check if there's an email registered with each keyword
- automate roughly 10 requests per keyword
And you'd get a list of emails?
Wow. I'm baffled.

ozh replied on April 04, 2009 09:52 to the idea "OpenID?" in scr.im:

After some thought, I'm dropping the idea, for 2 reasons:
- little added value for people
- would require some sort of account managing with login & password, which I don't want to implement. I want the service to be as simple & quickly usable as possible

ozh replied on April 04, 2009 09:50 to the problem "Mis-typed email address and memorable scr.in keyword" in scr.im:

In the future this won't be dealt with, obviously.

ozh replied on April 04, 2009 09:46 to the idea "Turn off "not so annoying" captcha" in scr.im:

I won't implement it for the same reason: adding an option that would be useful for 1 person and just clutter the interface for 100 others is bad. So far people have asked for:
- option for annoying captcha
- option for contact form
- option for login/password to edit themselves their URL
- option for a custom stylesheet

What kind of quick & simple service would it be if you had to ponder over so many checkboxes? I for one wouldn't like and use it.

I hope you get the point :)

ozh replied on April 04, 2009 08:17 to the idea "Change e-mail address (keep same URL)" in scr.im:

Not sillier than changing email I think.

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ozh replied on April 04, 2009 08:16 to the idea "Turn off "not so annoying" captcha" in scr.im:

Every time there's one Sandra that doesn't like this, there are 100 people who love it.

ozh posted an update in scr.im on April 03, 2009 19:41:

New: delete your scr.im!

By popular request, we've implemented an option to remove yourself from the database. Just go read the FAQ and you'll be done in minutes!

ozh set one of ozh's replies as an official response to "Removing my scr.im url" in scr.im

ozh replied on April 03, 2009 19:38 to the problem "Removing my scr.im url" in scr.im:

Implemented. Go read the FAQ!

ozh set one of ozh's replies as an official response to "Mis-typed email address and memorable scr.in keyword" in scr.im

ozh set one of ozh's replies as an official response to "No worky" in scr.im

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ozh replied on April 03, 2009 19:37 to the problem "IE8 Flaw" in scr.im:

I updated the JS so it works with IE7. Might fix IE8. All MSIE suck beyond acceptable.

ozh set one of ozh's replies as an official response to "Can't see the block of letters in IE8." in scr.im