[HN Gopher] Emails I Received, the Collection
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       Emails I Received, the Collection
        
       Author : osadalakmal
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2024-01-14 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (daniel.haxx.se)
 (TXT) w3m dump (daniel.haxx.se)
        
       | psittacus wrote:
       | Not to cast any shade on Daniel, but perhaps as a warning of
       | sorts?
       | 
       | Actually reading through the emails was only sporadically fun --
       | a lot of them are from people who seem like they need urgent help
       | and obviously aren't getting it.
       | 
       | His "summary" is "somehow they help me remember that the world we
       | live in is super complicated" and while true, it was more of
       | testament how confused a lot of people are, how lost. And how
       | privileged people who understand computers are, being able to
       | avoid this confusion.
        
       | gumby wrote:
       | Always a fun read -- I'm glad he still updates this.
       | 
       | Well, fun except for the super scary ones he received.
        
       | orf wrote:
       | Some of these emails are from disturbed and/or desperate people.
       | [1] and [2] for example. I'm all for having a smirk at some
       | clueless people now and again, but some of these strike a darker
       | tone and it's a bit unsettling.
       | 
       | At the end of the day it's sort of his fault for having a domain
       | called "haxx.se", regardless of if that was his intention or not.
       | Putting emails online of poor people who have found their way to
       | emailing him, desperate to restore their accounts or begging him
       | to not hack them again is... weird.
       | 
       | It's beyond having a smirk, and putting these confused people's
       | troubles into some kind of GitHub zoo for us to laugh at feels
       | wrong.
       | 
       | 1.
       | https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2023/2023-11-26.m...
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       | 2.
       | https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2023/2023-07-16.m...
        
       | Aloha wrote:
       | "Subject: Just wanted to say you...
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       | I hope you have a really nice day and that nothing is going wrong
       | in your life. Just know that i don't know what you do or who you
       | are and that I just saw your email address and name somewhere"
       | 
       | https://github.com/bagder/emails/blob/main/2020/2020-03-21.m...
       | 
       | As someone who has to respond to emails from the public, this one
       | kinda warmed my heart.
        
       | orenlindsey wrote:
       | It's so funny to read these emails, but I would put some kind of
       | disclaimer in the license about how to get actual help if you're
       | being hacked, or something like that.
        
       | c-smile wrote:
       | Early version of Sciter was HTMLayout engine where I put my email
       | in dll resources.
       | 
       | That was terrible idea. I did not realize how creative users are
       | to get that email from resources.
       | 
       | HTMLayout was especially popular among shareware INDIE authors -
       | HTML/CSS was easy to create cool looking UI.
       | 
       | So I started to receive tons of emails like "your electronic
       | enlarger is a crap - she is still not satisfied". All such sort
       | of things.
        
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