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A New App Will Let You Send Anonymous E-mail to Anyone

Posted July 30, 2014 10:44 AM

From The Washington Post:

First there was Ask.fm, the anonymous Q&A-site beloved by teenagers and hated by their parents. Then there were Whisper and Secret, the Post Secrets of the smartphone set, and Wut, the "anonymous-ish" group chat app that obscures your friends' identities so you can "banter" freely. Now, thanks to a buzzy new French Web site called Leak, the Internet's aggrieved and passive-aggressive have a new anonymous outlet: With just an Internet connection and an e-mail address, they can send nameless e-mails - for good or evil! - to whomever they like.

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07/30/2014 2:35 PM

A perfect match to my app (Gmail) which relegates anonymous emails to the Spam folder.

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07/30/2014 2:36 PM

And what's the point of that?

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07/30/2014 2:44 PM

Camouflage for Keyboard Kommandos most likely. And spammers.

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07/30/2014 5:47 PM

And now we have Leak, the site that encourages you to "just say it" - regardless of whether "it" is uplifting, confessional, shocking, rude, reckless, banned by conventional social norms … or something else entirely..

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"We believe in providing a tool to connect with people on a more candid and personal level," they write on a doe-eyed Dos-and-Don'ts page. "It's good to say everything you want. It's always a good time."

Gah. Block, block BLOCK !!!!

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07/30/2014 6:32 PM

NOW, isn't it time to ban anonymous posts and posters?

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07/31/2014 3:00 AM

Yes deffinitely

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07/31/2014 4:17 PM

I just had to give you a GA for the delicious irony.

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08/01/2014 3:26 AM

I can not tell a lie it was me

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07/30/2014 6:52 PM

Oh the haters are going to love it.....

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07/30/2014 10:12 PM

I guess it is now a race to see how fast the internet will become a totally worthless wasteland.

Wait, I think I see the checkered flag - in my rearview mirror. That was fast.

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07/31/2014 9:22 AM

Nice sticker. I like ones that most people don't understand.

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07/31/2014 9:34 AM

Usually, those are the ones with the bad grammar.

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07/31/2014 3:01 AM

Title is wrong anyway... you can't sen' 'em to my brother he don't go no E-mail innit?

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07/31/2014 3:32 AM

The evil will outnumber the good by somewhere between 10:1 and 100:1, I guess. This will cater to the anonymous fools/liars/cowards that inhabit most religion and politics forums.

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07/31/2014 2:40 PM

What I consistently saw in my two years on Google+ (which, like most other major social networks, does not support anonymous postings) were the inevitable anti-god/anti-religion types wading in to enlighten all with their special brand of sunshine, especially on science-related threads. A sort of parallel to Godwin's Law, in effect, but one having to do with god/religion. It was they - not the pro-god/pro-religion types - who inevitably spoiled it for everyone else. Their appearance nearly always heralded the death of the thread no matter how excellent it had been prior. This happened often enough that I finally got sick of it; sick of the same, tired, pseudo-intellectual hate-speech, ad-hominem attacks and broad generalizations over and over, and I deleted my account, never to return. I didn't need it there and I don't need it here.

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07/31/2014 3:47 PM

I didn't even last that long, only a few months and then I found CR4 and never looked back.

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08/03/2014 5:39 PM

Yet another way to waste the bandwidth of the internet. It would be really fast if all the spam, phishing, ads etc., annon messages etc weren't there! Junk mail folders will just get bigger.

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