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It will, however, be at least 1 month till you get that citation (but more likely…",{"id":70,"by":11,"text":71},"2797725","I don't really have a user demographic in mind, this was just a fun project that was easy to set up. I'm using mailgun to deliver the mails, or rather I will use mailgun in about…",[73,79,86],{"value":74,"source":64,"evidence":75},"Perl",[76],{"id":77,"by":11,"text":78},"2797715","The exact second is picked uniformly at random using an approximation of 30 days per month. The code is: ``` my $sendAt = time + int(rand()*86400*30*5) + 86400*30; ```",{"value":80,"source":64,"evidence":81},"Mailgun for email delivery",[82,85],{"id":83,"by":11,"text":84},"2797530","I just set it up, and I can assure you that it's reliable (uses Mailgun for delivery, which is top-notch). 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Good tool to add a little randomness into life - several months is enough time to forget about all the messages one sent to one's friends. And then, one day,…",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"2797831","bane","Neat take on the scheduled email idea! (plug our own Momentomail service requires you to schedule a precise time)...random delivery might be a fun take on the idea -- surprise…",{"value":114,"source":99,"evidence":115},"Good random-delivery twist",[116,117],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},[119,129,136,140],{"value":120,"source":99,"evidence":121},"Hard to get users to return; one-time use",[122,125],{"id":123,"by":99,"text":124},"2798989","Great idea, but not very great execution. It looks nice to use once, but hardly will be used again until see it again. You should add some things that will connect tha user with…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"2798611","parrisj","This idea reminds me of ohlife. An email based journal service where every day they randomly choose a previous entry to send you. Its a cool idea. I just don't see how you'll get…",{"value":130,"source":99,"evidence":131},"Reliability and longevity of the service are unclear",[132],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"2797524","genieyclo","I dunno if this is a reliable service and how long it's been around. 6 months is also a bit limited. I've used futureme.org, which does work. In fact, I just got a message from…",{"value":137,"source":99,"evidence":138},"Weak design and unclear value proposition",[139],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},{"value":141,"source":99,"evidence":142},"Delivery spam-filter risk",[143],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"2798112","strager","What's the e-mail address the message will be sent from? I want to be sure I receive the message; I don't want it ending up in my spam box.",[148,159,163,170],{"value":149,"source":99,"evidence":150},"Add a privacy policy explaining data deletion",[151,155],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"2800058","LocalPCGuy","Pretty cool, I submitted a message for my future self. I would add a privacy note, stating what you said here about dropping the emails\u002Fmessage after sending - I couldn't find…",{"id":156,"by":157,"text":158},"2797706","kgen","So... what are you going to do with everyone's emails? (Besides delivering their past messages)",{"value":160,"source":99,"evidence":161},"Allow scheduling a chosen date, not only random",[162],{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},{"value":164,"source":99,"evidence":165},"Improve randomness method",[166],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"2797730","palish","You should use a Mersenne Twister rather than rand(). That rand() probably only has 32767 discrete values. So your time is quite imprecise, in addition to being biased. (C's…",{"value":171,"source":99,"evidence":172},"Add mobile app or Facebook integration",[173],{"id":123,"by":99,"text":124},[175,179,186],{"value":176,"source":99,"evidence":177},"What sender address is used and will mail land in spam?",[178],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},{"value":180,"source":99,"evidence":181},"How does it differ from futureme.org?",[182],{"id":183,"by":184,"text":185},"2799087","mreid","How does this differ from http:\u002F\u002Ffutureme.org ? 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