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mrb on Sept 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Email will last forever

Put "autoresponder:online_identity" in the subject, you will get a reply.

I do like the blank email + HATEOAS idea.

arethuza on Sept 3, 2014 [–]

Ah yes - I was being a bit thick and I hadn't read your blog post at that point.

NB I left a comment there but it didn't format correctly. What I suggested was having the subject line be similar to the first line of an HTTP request i.e. <verb> <path>

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