> It IS acceptable to reach out to people on HN If you have something to say to or ask of me, personally, I'm all ears! But it's lazy and discourteous to blast

> It IS acceptable to reach out to people on HN If you have something to say to or ask of me, personally, I'm all ears! But it's lazy and discourteous to blast out a half-true template to e-mail addresses you've harvested from the site. I was at least entertained by "I saw your submissions," which is vacuously true because my submissions are an empty set ;)