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It would be good to see the email that caused the ruckus... or did I just miss it in the post?

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http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/appsumo-m...

Posted as an image to preserve the distinctive formatting. Continues in that kind of vein for a while.

Thanks! That definitely adds context to the post. It's funny but I can definitely see some people not caring for the type of humour.

haha, definitely looks like spam

Well, if that's the magic email number 3, then I think maybe he lost all the subscriber who had been stalked or had been arrested for stalking. In either case, I can guess those folks didn't find it very funny... The rest of us might.

I dug around my email box and I think this is the one: http://www.errant.me.uk/code/snip/10

It was long. And very odd.

I'm kinda used to that from Appsumo by now so it didn't really register for me. Truth be told, I just clicked through to see the offer straight away and ignored the rest as TL;DR. Reading it now.. the nicest description I can come up with is "rambling"

EDIT: Patio11 has a point about the formatting :) so: http://errant.me.uk/appsumo.html

Yikes. I suspect I'd be one of the people to consider unsubscribing after receiving an email like that.

Looks like the more recent ones have a TL;DR section right upfront.

http://pastie.org/1726812

Wow. Kind of reminds me of a cross between http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YBxeDN4tbk and http://www.timecube.com/

You should set your page's charset to UTF-8.

Wow. In what universe is this considered good copy writing?

I don't think you missed it. 848 words in the article and yet no mention of the actual email that was such a problem.

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