The only real shame in this case is that HN is becoming a place for people to air their trivial meta nonsense.<p>You got an unwanted piece of email? Take a second to mark it as spam and be done with it. Sweet mother of god, you got it via HN?? Once again, take the exact same second to mark it as spam and be done it. But don't assume that it affects the big scheme of things concerning HN, because it doesn't. A single company trolling for emails is orthogonal to the evolution/erosion of HN.<p>P.S. You're feeling 'sad'? <i>This</i> is all it takes to make you feel sad? Jesus.