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At last, Facebook messages via email

excerpt I’m not seeing it yet — at least not in the Facebook messages I’ve gotten so far today — but Mike Arrington says that Facebook is now sending messages straight to you in your email, instead of making you click through to read them. This might seem li ...

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    leigh 7 months ago with 1 point

    This change means more to me than allowing me to opt out of Beacon.

    You scare me. Not more than Beacon does mind you, but still.....

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    mathewi 7 months ago with 1 point

    Hey, at least I'm not getting all cranked up about coloured labels in Gmail :-)

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    Sean 7 months ago with 1 point

    that's because you are a little too flippant about the implications of beacon.... but yeah... it's a good addition (the messaging feature)

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    Sean 7 months ago with 1 point

    that's because you are a little too flippant about the implications of beacon.... but yeah... it's a good addition (the messaging feature)

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    mathewi 7 months ago with 1 point

    Too flippant? That's unpossible :-)

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    Clark 7 months ago with 1 point

    I operate a fairly active forum site and unfortunately am planning to go the other way...

    Right now, the full message gets included within the email notification to the user.

    But every day, there are at least a few people who reply to those messages directly... but the "from" address is my default site address, so I end up receiving the messages instead of the intended recipients.

    The notification messages say the following twice:

    "Please do not reply to this email. You must go to the following page to reply to this private message:"

    , but it doesn't seem to help in some cases :)

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    mathewi 7 months ago with 1 point

    I can see how that would be a pain, Clark -- luckily, Facebook
    messages apparently go back to the original sender when you reply to
    them. And in the comments on my blog (such as this one), Disqus lets
    me respond to comments like yours by replying via e-mail, and my reply
    gets automatically posted as a comment.

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    Idta 3 months ago with 1 point

    Now we just need to be able to actually respond to those messages directly from our e-mail!!

    Would proove very worthy at work or school.

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