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I used the co-founder list...to request a co-founder, I dont know what you mean by various blogs, its in a google doc which you were apparently listed in. Apol

I used the co-founder list...to request a co-founder, I dont know what you mean by various blogs, its in a google doc which you were apparently listed in. Apologies if it was unwanted but please then remove your name from it. I emailed most of the list as I am not looking for a specific person, anyone that is interested in helping. Its not like there are attributes specifically mentioned that would help me narrow for "someone interested in classical music". However, it obviously wont happen again :)

proexploit 16y ago
It's intended to provide people information so they might find a suitable co-founder based on skills wanted, common interests etc. It's a great tool to use. The issue is with both emailing everyone on the list and with putting everyone in the TO instead of BCC. I've got about tons of emails about this all day which are people saying "please remove me". I wouldn't be a fit for your work anyways, but even if I was, I would have changed my mind by now.
- magic5227 16y ago
  You're right, not BCC'ing was a mistake.
alnayyir 16y ago
You do not mass email people with a BCC to find a cofounder. You find someone you like individually and write a response to them based on the strengths in them that you saw. Finding a co-founder should be treated with as much care as dating. Sending spam to me via the cofounder list makes your idea, company, and any/all entities you so much as breathe on get the instant waste basket. I don't know what's happened since 2000 to make people believe spam is somehow acceptable when there's an individual rubber-stamped on the front of it. Being a "startup" doesn't excuse spam either. Let alone the efficacy of it. This is like mass emailing women on craigslist trying to get an easy lay, except being stupid enough to mass-email them all at once instead of serially, and then they get into a reply-all mess. There is a lack of consideration and ignorance present at every possible dimension of what you did that I don't begin to have time or patience to enumerate here. Very bad form, the only good thing you could've done is "Sorry, I boned up, won't happen again.", instead you act like an adolescent and try to defend your rude behavior. I doubt I'm the only person who got emailed who feels this way. Do I need to publish the reply-all furor in this thread to demonstrate that I'm not alone in being disturbed by this or are you going to apologize? Note: this isn't the first time someone's made this mistake, just the first time they've had the cajones to follow it up with 1. A post on HN 2. Trying to defend their spam in a comment reply As for removing my information, most people are sufficiently socially aware enough to send me a personal email. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't stop the propagation of my personal information as there are many web apps and clones of that info all over the internet that I have zero control over. You might as well tell EA to go pull all the pirated copies of their software.
magic5227 16y ago
@alnayyir Im defending that you accused me of scraping emails from somewhere. I emailed most of the list because I'm not looking for any specific type of help, and its not like people are mentioning classical music interests in the bios. I need technical and business people.

proexploit 16y ago

It's intended to provide people information so they might find a suitable co-founder based on skills wanted, common interests etc. It's a great tool to use. The issue is with both emailing everyone on the list and with putting everyone in the TO instead of BCC. I've got about tons of emails about this all day which are people saying "please remove me". I wouldn't be a fit for your work anyways, but even if I was, I would have changed my mind by now.

magic5227 16y ago
You're right, not BCC'ing was a mistake.

alnayyir 16y ago

You do not mass email people with a BCC to find a cofounder. You find someone you like individually and write a response to them based on the strengths in them that you saw. Finding a co-founder should be treated with as much care as dating. Sending spam to me via the cofounder list makes your idea, company, and any/all entities you so much as breathe on get the instant waste basket. I don't know what's happened since 2000 to make people believe spam is somehow acceptable when there's an individual rubber-stamped on the front of it. Being a "startup" doesn't excuse spam either. Let alone the efficacy of it. This is like mass emailing women on craigslist trying to get an easy lay, except being stupid enough to mass-email them all at once instead of serially, and then they get into a reply-all mess. There is a lack of consideration and ignorance present at every possible dimension of what you did that I don't begin to have time or patience to enumerate here. Very bad form, the only good thing you could've done is "Sorry, I boned up, won't happen again.", instead you act like an adolescent and try to defend your rude behavior. I doubt I'm the only person who got emailed who feels this way. Do I need to publish the reply-all furor in this thread to demonstrate that I'm not alone in being disturbed by this or are you going to apologize? Note: this isn't the first time someone's made this mistake, just the first time they've had the cajones to follow it up with 1. A post on HN 2. Trying to defend their spam in a comment reply As for removing my information, most people are sufficiently socially aware enough to send me a personal email. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't stop the propagation of my personal information as there are many web apps and clones of that info all over the internet that I have zero control over. You might as well tell EA to go pull all the pirated copies of their software.

magic5227 16y ago

@alnayyir Im defending that you accused me of scraping emails from somewhere. I emailed most of the list because I'm not looking for any specific type of help, and its not like people are mentioning classical music interests in the bios. I need technical and business people.