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Hacker News LinkedIn Group: This list is dead, long live the list.

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So, a while back we started a mailing list with a handful of subscribers from the news.YC community, but after a couple weeks the idea didn't really stick.

On the plus side, we've had a large number of folks (over 100 now) join the LinkedIn group, which is here:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=86116

Today LinkedIn finally made groups, well, useful, so I'll be killing off the lists, but semi-private discussions are still possible on the LinkedIn group.

I have rejected a handful of people from the group. While I've not adhered hard-and-fast to the "you must have a karma of 20" rule, if I can't find connection to this site or startups I will most likely reject your submission. (For those of you who haven't run a LinkedIn group, there are a lot of head-hunters that try to join every group out there, so there should be some way to keep the group focused.)

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Just a quick update here -- I'll go through all of the applications sometime later today or tomorrow so that I can hit most of them in one batch (rather than trying to track them as they come in).

I'm going through them now and again there are quite a few applications where there's no obvious connection to news.YC or startups. If you got rejected, please just find someway to let me know that you are in fact connected to the community.

There were nearly 100 applications, so it's possible that in a case or two I just missed some piece of info -- again, just reapply and send me a message.

What about this group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3426 has over 150 members.

Thank you for creating the list. Real name: Gary Rosales

Please put your Hacker News nick in the Groups and Associations field of your profile.

Where's that?? Can't find it.

Scroll way down to Additional Information, Groups and Associations is below Interests and Websites.

Hi, I'm your Miguel request... I figure you wont be able to find a link to me on this site without me replying to you here.

Hi, I joined from Linkedin for several weeks. But it says status pending. My name is eugenejen.

Thanks for taking the time to get this started. Just joined. Real name: Drew Breunig.

Great idea - just joined.

Wheels, should we report any spammers/headhunters to you?

Yeah, if they're hitting you through the group, definitely. I suspect LinkedIn will have a whole new can of worms with them in discussion groups.

Usually those are pretty easy to spot when I look at their profile though because they're members of 40 groups. :-)

Just applied. Real name is Trevor Lee.

Just joined. Real name Cameron Priest

Hey, joined! Real name Dave Piccione.

Joined. Real name is Devon Hillard

Joined. My real name is James Kent.

Joined my RN: Jonathan Markwell

Joined. RN: Drew Crawford

Just Joined. Bruno

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