My HN username is also my gmail. I've got most of the stuff you mentioned, including unencrypted copies of US tax returns (with SSN) and house buying paperwork.
> I used to reach out and tell them I didn't sign up for their service. But honestly, after doing it for a few years I gave up.
Same here. It's surprising that most of the services don't use double-opt in before sending emails.
Some day, I want to use an LLM to identify those emails and label them.
The deal isn’t always about the price. For example, a $1M house bought with $100K down and $900K mortgage is a worse deal for the seller as compared to $500K down and $500K financed. Assumption here is that it is more likely to get a $500K loan irrespective of the appraised value of the house.
A lower all cash offer (say $975K) is likely a better offer for the seller because it reduces the risk for them and closes the transaction much quicker than a mortgage transaction.
I have been a buyer in two transactions where my offer was slightly lower than the highest bidder, but with better terms.
HTML emails were there before, but I agree that fast UI and threads was a step up from Yahoo or Hotmail. Labels instead of folders, username+wildcard@ email addresses, filters (at least the UX was better than traditional rules). They also enabled POP and IMAP. IIRC, IMAP used to be a premium feature for email providers at that time.
I’m not sure about revolution, but e-mail can certainly be evolved.
20 years ago, not as many emails were sent, especially transactional emails. User behavior has evolved since then.
For example, storing email receipt of a random Amazon order from 2 years ago doesn’t make much sense these days.
Hey has addressed some of these changes, but there is a lot of room for improvement.