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Comment by aymeric | Hacker News Reader

I think you should remove this link. It is just not nice.

I don't know. On the one hand, it's also not nice for people to fish for my email address, which is why services like Mailinator are so wildly popular. On the other hand, it doesn't always justify not-nice behaviour to note that it's in response to, and works to ameliorate, other not-nice behaviour.

Yes, I know, 37signals is a bit more respectable than most of the people who want your email. Nevertheless they're signing you up for an email list without explicitly asking you -- the email that they send back specifically says, "Periodically we'll drop you a line if we have something interesting to share." I did not check any box which agreed to that, and I shouldn't have to unsubscribe from things I never subscribed to.

E-mail is a low price for "Getting Real".

I'm just surprised that 37signals are using techniques of "six-pack in a week"-kind of sites.

For years I have worked under the assumption that my email has been harvested to death, sold and resold. I don't care about giving it to companies.

Gmail hides the spam from me and it's quick filter wizard helps me hide anything else I want to.

How so?

Probably because it circumvents the price of submitting your email address.

You don't have to submit anything.

Don't you have to submit your email address to gain access to the PDF?

Yes, and doing so also auto-subscribes you to a list. Not that I mind, but it would be nice to let someone know beforehand.

I did NOT get that. All I got was a direct link to the book.

You people are stuck on the wrong side of an A/B experiment. Tough luck~

I find it odd sometimes that people don't take the same attitude towards Adblock. Sponsored links are a price too.

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