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0 pointsCharlesW1y ago0 comments

I recommend reporting this to dang at hn@ycombinator.com. I imagine that he'd be interested in someone crawling HN in order to send automated lead generation spam.

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bityard1y ago

I don't think dang can do anything about it, I'm sure HN gets scraped all the time. I routinely get spam from cryptocurrency startups to (obfuscated) email addresses I have posted on HN years ago on "Who Wants to be Hired" threads, and from my commit messages on github.

jrockway1y ago

Github is definitely quite the source of spam. I ended up realizing that when I was tired of having two .gitconfigs with two email addresses (work/personal) and switched to just putting my @users.noreply.github.com in there. No more spam.

(Plus I get to show off my 4 digit Github userid. I was the 2367th person to sign up! ;)

bityard1y ago

Neat. I was pretty late to the party and have a userid halfway into the 6 digits, but somehow I got extremely lucky and landed a two-character username (my initials).

jrockway1y ago

I get a ton of emails from people on HN and I dunno, it's really my fault for putting my email in my profile. I don't blame HN for this; I don't think it's particularly supportive of this kind of "abuse".

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bityard1y ago

jrockway1y ago

(Plus I get to show off my 4 digit Github userid. I was the 2367th person to sign up! ;)

bityard1y ago

Neat. I was pretty late to the party and have a userid halfway into the 6 digits, but somehow I got extremely lucky and landed a two-character username (my initials).

jrockway1y ago

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