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Wow, it's a slow news day on HN today.

Here is the email feature I want. If I paste a URL that looks like a post/article into a new message, I want the slug automagically split, title cased and copied into the subject line.

For example:

    http://blog.jgc.org/2012/11/the-greatest-google-mail-feature-you.html
Would generate this subject:

    The Greatest Google Mail Feature You
Yes, this was a bad example because the title has been truncated, but I can fill in the rest manually. Most slugs contain the full title.


Or they could just do what Facebook does and load the page server-side and get the real title.


Yeah, that would be the ideal strategy for pages with an og:title tag.


Fetching the url and sticking the "title" in the subject might be better.




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