Show HN: Outis – Fight AI spam by sending fake "user unknown" bounce emails
Outis Outis fights spam generating and sends a fake "user unknown" bounce for an email you received, so the sender believes your address does not exist. This should work well for the recent trend of AI-generated automated emails, where the sender may expect a reply; it helps to clean your email from their list. In the Odyssey, Odysseus gives it as his name to the Cyclops Polyphemus, so that when the blinded giant calls for help and shouts that "Nobody" is hurting him, the other Cyclopes leave.
- ▪Outis Outis fights spam generating and sends a fake "user unknown" bounce for an email you received, so the sender believes your address does not exist.
- ▪This should work well for the recent trend of AI-generated automated emails, where the sender may expect a reply; it helps to clean your email from their list.
- ▪In the Odyssey, Odysseus gives it as his name to the Cyclops Polyphemus, so that when the blinded giant calls for help and shouts that "Nobody" is hurting him, the other Cyclopes leave.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/dtonon/outis |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:36:11 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-02T16:22:21.261Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-02T16:22:21.261Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | pAlNI6N6xbvm · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Outis Outis fights spam generating and sends a fake "user unknown" bounce for an email you received, so the sender believes your address does not exist. This should work well for the recent trend of AI-generated automated emails, where the sender may expect a reply; it helps to clean your email from their list. Outis (Οὖτις) is Greek for "nobody". In the Odyssey, Odysseus gives it as his name to the Cyclops Polyphemus, so that when the blinded giant calls for help and shouts that "Nobody" is hurting him, the other Cyclopes leave. The tool does the same for your mailbox: it tells whoever is asking that there is nobody here.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.