Of 9cays and casual services

A new service has been announced on the ruby on rails mailing list, 9cays which allows any registered user to start a micro mailing list by simply adding the go@9cays.com to a message destinations. 9Cays then generates a dedicated email address and a page to hold all the messages which belong to this conversation. Any partecipant (e.g. those present on the first email) will receive an invitation to join it and all the messages sent to the conversation address will get forwarded to all the partecipants and will be archived on the page (more here).

I was surprised reading this since I was actually thinking about the same kind of interaction for a small application I’m going to build, albeit more focused on business-customer relations. So kudos to the authors for being first at it (I’ll use it for sure!).