Mine was in spam too
Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
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Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#12What's the rejection email look like? Just a one liner or an explanation about how "it's not you, its me"? :-)
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#13How many applicants received any questions on their proposals from YC before tonight?
We did (excitement!) get an interview and we did get a question, so YRMV.
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#14In IRC: lol, didn't pg invent that spam filter? (Didn't quite invent it, but http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html )
According to a conversation I had with Paul Buchheit (paul here at HN) in the past, GMail spam filters are heavily reputation based, which leads me to believe that Bayesian filtering is not a first line of defense, and likely would be specific to each mailbox rather than universally applied. So, if it's happening to everyone, then it's a universal rule at GMail that's doing the filtering, and thus I would guess not h…
Good point wrt inventing. Wanted to be on the safe side, but that makes complete sense!
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#15Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#161) how many applications did they receive ?
2) and how many did they accept ?
3) weve edited the application a lot of times since July. I understand that they started reading them before application deadline. could they have read an older version of our application ?
4) since Google is God, its good is infinite. Hence I assume GMail marked the mail as spam to protect me from feeling rejected, 'cause shit was already happening today since I woke up.
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#17What does the rejection email say?
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#18REJECTED! KILLS SELF Naw it's coo-. I was kind of hoping I would get rejected since I've had second thoughts about someone owning 5% of my idea since I applied a few months back. Hope the lucky winners blow apart the interwebz 2.5 with some crazy new productive ideas.
If your application read anything like this comment I think I know why you got rejected.
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#19In IRC: lol, didn't pg invent that spam filter? (Didn't quite invent it, but http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html )
According to a conversation I had with Paul Buchheit (paul here at HN) in the past, GMail spam filters are heavily reputation based, which leads me to believe that Bayesian filtering is not a first line of defense, and likely would be specific to each mailbox rather than universally applied. So, if it's happening to everyone, then it's a universal rule at GMail that's doing the filtering, and thus I would guess not h…
Maybe Gmail thinks it's one of these:
Re: Tell HN: If you haven't got your YC email, check your Spam folder
#20anyone know if they just mail the main applicant or do they send a mail to each of the group members? my email is a tad unreliable and i hadn't heard back about my app.