If you applied for this cycle, please tell us your email address
We're about to send out the responses for this cycle, and we've found that a lot of applicants haven't put their email addresses in their profiles. So if you applied this cycle and you want a response, please edit your profile and put your email address in the email field.
(Sorry for the inconvenience. In the next version we won't let people submit applications unless there's a valid address there, but this sw only gets used every 6 months so it doesn't evolve very fast.)
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In sum, the problem is that
a lot of applicants haven't put their email addresses in their profiles
and the solution is to
put your email address in the email field [and not just the about field].
Your solution will work only for new users, unless "public" is the default (opt-out for current users). This can piss off people.
Correction: Looks like we're going to mail everyone.
A form of self selection in a way. I can't believe that after multiple selections this message hasn't got through yet. Only 4/16 on this thread ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348070 (not a true indication of application) had contact emails.
please edit your profile and put your email address in the email field.
TextMate can do this for you automatically.
For a site, you could just have a small back end script that looks for an email address in standard format and then encrypts it. You get something like this: <script type="text/javascript">document.write( "nneba\100nangbzlnqf\056pbz".replace(/[a-zA-Z]/g, function(c){return String.fromCharCode((c<="Z"?90:122)>=(c=c.charCodeAt(0)+13)?c:c-26);})); </script>