"It is, however, unsolicited "commercial" email.<p>Via HN."<p>Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought your email was available on your profile page for anyone to read and extract. So as far as I can see all this means is that someone is trawling HN profiles for email of likely startup employees and sending out email.<p>How is this different from posting your email on <i>any</i> web page anywhere on the Internet? I would imagine if you publish your email on an investments discussion board you'd get spam about "lucrative investment opportunities". How is this any different? Publish your email id <i>anywhere</i> (including your own pages) and you'll get spam. How is this new? And what is with all the drama about "via HN"?<p>"Shame" (EDIT: this has been edited in the submission.  Originally it was just this one word on a line by itself)<p>huh? Are you asking the spammer to feel shame? Or are you surprised spammers trawled HN and suggesting HN readers (or moderators) feel shame?<p>(fwiw I got this message too. "Mark as spam". Done).