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It’s no different from any other spam message. Nobody here can do anything about it but you by removing your email from public.
by unknownaccount 4y ago
It’s no different from any other spam message. Nobody here can do anything about it but you by removing your email from public.
- krisoft 4y agoOr, the person who is sending them can read this message, feel ashamed and can stop sending them?
- prmoustache 4y agoDo you really think they care? Why in hell would you put your email address in a public space in the first place if you care about spam?
- striking 4y agoBecause you'd like to accept direct messages from other HN users? And the spam is usually so minimal it's not a problem?
- krisoft 4y ago> Do you really think they care? Why I bet that they believe that they are hustling on their legitimate startup. That's what I think. Maybe they don't. I don't see how it is a problem to try to reach for them this way. > Why in hell would you put your email address in a public space in the first place if you care about spam? I don't see how this is relevant to the question. The person who put their address unprotected up for spam can be foolish, and the person who is sending them the spam should stop. Both of these can be true at the same time.
- prmoustache 4y ago>Both of these can be true at the same time. True but decades of this has shown that people and their elected gov don't give a damn about trying to curb this by law and policing so we both know given the current state we are on our own to protect us about that.
- leephillips 4y agoI care about spam. My email address, unobfuscated, has been publicly available for over 20 years. Why? So people can email me.
- dopp0 4y agoI wish I was as hopeful as you, for real :)