There isnt a ton of info yet, but based on the Twitter rant we can infer a few things.
He's fed up with "big tech" doing nothing about spam and unwanted messaging. This is funny for a number of reasons. But unless I'm misinterpreting something, DHH seems to think the big providers are in cahoots with email marketers. Allowing them to spam people at will. So we can assume this is supposed to be a solution to spam and unwanted messaging. He also spent some time talking about tracking pixels being "spy devices." He mentioned, in colorful language, that Hey will rip out tracking pixels or something like that. What is interesting is that his ire for tracking opens is directed at marketers/senders and not mailbox providers. Or maybe it's both? Either way, from this we can infer that Hey is going to "fix" all the consumer privacy issues associated with email. >From other tweets he mentioned that it will be a standalone application that does all the email stuff; send, receive, store..it will also do all the SPF, DKIM, DMARC stuff. It will also do spam filtering and reputation scoring and everything that comes along with that. All built in house. You will *not* be able to use this as a wrapper for your gmail/hotmail/yahoo/aol mailboxes. Custom domains will come eventually. But this is not another service you can tie a gmail inbox to. Thank goodness? The plan is to charge people for it. Which isn't a bad thing. All of this is just information gathered from a twitter rant and what little there is on their website. So, take it all with a grain of salt. But the gist of it is that tracking pixels are spying on you, "big tech" is ruining email by helping spammers, and the Hey email service will solve all of this. *Fingers crossed.* Luke On Sat, Feb 8, 2020, 9:24 AM Thomas Walter via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > So, this https://hey.com/ has been making it rounds through my filter > bubble. > > It seems to be a new concept(?) for an email service ("not client" as > the emphasize) by the Basecamp guys. > > They say > > > [Mail] deserves a dust off. A renovation. Modernized for the way we > > email today. > > > > With HEY, we’ve done just that. It’s a redo, a rethink, a simplified, > > potent reintroduction of email. A fresh start, the way it should be. > > David Heinemeier Hansson (https://twitter.com/dhh) has been mentioning > it on Twitter now and then and there are some rumors, but I haven't > heard much else. > > Anyone on here who knows more? > > Regards from Germany, > Thomas Walter > > -- > Thomas Walter > Datenverarbeitungszentrale > > FH Münster > - University of Applied Sciences - > Corrensstr. 25, Raum B 112 > 48149 Münster > > Tel: +49 251 83 64 908 > Fax: +49 251 83 64 910 > www.fh-muenster.de/dvz/ > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop >
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