Why is a spam message to a publicly listed email address considered worthy of sharing or even paying any attention to?
So as such it's different, and directly related to HN.
I bet that they believe that they are hustling on their legitimate startup. That's what I think.
Maybe they don't. I don't see how it is a problem to try to reach for them this way.
> Why in hell would you put your email address in a public space in the first place if you care about spam?
I don't see how this is relevant to the question. The person who put their address unprotected up for spam can be foolish, and the person who is sending them the spam should stop.
Both of these can be true at the same time.
True but decades of this has shown that people and their elected gov don't give a damn about trying to curb this by law and policing so we both know given the current state we are on our own to protect us about that.
My email is sufficiently esoteric as to ensure that a sizeable percentage (when last measured between 20% and 25%) of legitimate email gets put in the spam bin, rendering commercial spam filtering effectively useless.