I don't want to seem like we're trying to force people to sign up for News.YC. I'll tell you what, though: if everyone uses the same email address when they apply that they have in their profile, I'll try to match them.

That means you can't say e.g. whatever [at] gmail in your profile email field. But you don't need to anyway; it isn't visible to crawlers.

Now, after asking for this feature, I realized I won't even be anywhere near california on that day.

Argh.