If you want to try it send a mail to smolmail AT typed-hole.org with a gopher | gemini | http(s) or even finger url in the subject and you should get something in return.

(Obviously gmail or outlook users will have to check their spam folder)

@julienxx ah, you've done a Stallman!

> I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

@M0YNG oh thanks I wasn't aware he did that but yes that's the idea

@lvdd_ basically it's an email service to browse stuff on gopher/gemini/http/finger, you send a mail with an URL in the subject and you get the content back. There is a demo further in the mastodon thread.

@encelado is that planned?

@julienxx no; at least, nothing I'm aware of :(.

@mousebot gemini in this example but it can retrieve http too

@julienxx ah, actually I just meant can I read that text, Desert?

@mousebot yes here https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/republic.circumlunar.space/users/flexibeast/gemlog/2022-07-13.gmi
not mine by the way :)

@rakoo oh that’s a great idea!

@julienxx There's also https://forlater.email/, still for the http world, but there definitely is value in the idea. I personally like the idea of having content stored in a place that is synced to all my devices, can be read offline, and is dirt-easy to transfer

@rakoo yeah that was my idea and also be able to read content with devices that can't browse these URLs (no available client, not enough power...)