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M$1 January 15, 2009 11:16 PM

BETA NEW FEATURE: Post questions by email now open to all.

If you would like to test the email questions by beta please email
answers-test@mahalo.com your question.

1. Email your question to answers-test@mahalo.com.
2. Email from the address associated with your Mahalo profile and the
question will be attached to your account (just like by via the web).
3. Email from a new email that doesn't have a profile and a profile
called "emailuserRANDOMNUMBER" will be automatically created.
4. Subject line = Your question.
5. Body of email = Question details.
6. Add M$1 to the end of the subject line in order add a one dollar
tip (2, 3, 4, etc).
7. After you ask a question you will get a confirmation email that
your reply to in order to activate your question (this will prevent
spam).
8. Make sure you delete your sig file if you don't want that included
in the question detail! :-)

Please test this feature from your various email accounts.
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answerman answerman
 
January 15, 2009 11:20 PM
This could be cool....

Thanks.

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cherman cherman
 
January 15, 2009 11:22 PM
My next question I will ask by email. This is really great!

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adamg adamg
 
January 15, 2009 11:24 PM
Thank you. I've tried this and it works well.

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nativenerd nativenerd
 
January 15, 2009 11:25 PM
Yikes! Just a heads up. Be careful with posting actual email addresses(even these kind). With as high as this site ranks on search engines, it probably gets crawled by a healthy number of spam-bots that collect the addy's on a page. It can make sorting through responses and auto-posting a real pain...

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jasoncalac... jasoncalac...
 
January 15, 2009 11:25 PM
We are not posting people's e-mail addresses.

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mollyfud mollyfud
 
January 16, 2009 04:16 AM
I think they meant the Mahalo Answers Email Address

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nativenerd nativenerd
 
January 16, 2009 05:59 AM
Yeah, the answers email addy can be spammed just the same. You'll have a hell of a time with spamassassin or whatever letting the occassional slip and then having it auto-post as a question. I notice this one has a "test" on the end, so I'm assuming it isn't the live addy. Might be something to consider when it does go live though

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nativenerd nativenerd
 
January 16, 2009 06:43 PM
"7. After you ask a question you will get a confirmation email that
your reply to in order to activate your question (this will prevent
spam). "

Guess I should have read a little more closely...oops...that fixes what I was worried about!

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tracebooks tracebooks
 
January 16, 2009 12:16 AM
Glad it was a success!

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ssharon ssharon
 
January 16, 2009 02:26 AM
This new feature (which I love, but haven't tested yet) illustrates a small annoyance with the feature described here ( http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-community/new-feature-use-and-symbol-to-link-to-a-userpage-in-questions-and-answers )

Now whenever you type an email address like answers-test@mahalo it thinks you are talking about a user named mahalo. It isn't the biggest thing to ignore, nor would I recommend people post email addresses too often, but it takes away from the otherwise clean and consistent look if you ask me.

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mollyfud mollyfud
 
January 16, 2009 04:21 AM
How can I be judged the best answer is there is no question? In lieu of a question, I will answer THE QUESTION, you know "What is the meaning of Life, the Universe, Everything?"
A:42
Source(s):
http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid183_gci211501,0...


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alfy alfy
 
January 16, 2009 05:08 AM
Tested with tipped and not.
- I ignored one alert and the question did not get published (correct!)
- i replied the second one and it got published
- tried a third one replying with some extra text in the body, this question was not published, note that i did not change the part at the bottom with the code you need to identify the question, i just added some words at the beginning of the reply body. Also note that i waited about 25 minutes before giving up on it
Source(s):
personally tested


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