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Just got this email:

  Hi sep332!

  I made a new product, Zube https://zube.io . It's a
  simple project management tool for GitHub issues.
  I've been working on it with my cofounder for 6 months.

  I'm super excited to announce that we're launching
  Zube today on Hacker News. You can read more about why
  we made it here - https://zube.io/blog .

  Hope you check it out and let me know what you think!

  Cheers,
  Jen

You know this kind of spam is literally illegal, right?

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Sorry, sp332. I only sent this email out to people who I thought would be interested in a new project of mine because they were interested in my other projects (180 Websites in 180 Days and YumHacker).

I don't mean to spam anyone and I'll remove you from my list.

Edit: To be clear, I only sent emails to people who have given me their emails previously. I didn't scrape them from the internet.

Sorry again!

I'm not even that angry about it - I mean it's friendly enough. I just thought it was a big legal risk for you to be taking at the start of a project!

Edit: Well if I signed up for your emails before, it's not so bad. But without a one-click unsubscribe link, I think it's still in violation of the CAN-SPAM act.

How is it illegal?

At first I thought my email was just scraped from HN. See my other comment too.

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