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If you applied this cycle and haven't heard from us, please check your spam folder

19 points by pg ↗ HN
We replied to all the applicants last night, but some say they still haven't heard from us. Many if not most of our replies got classified as spam. GMail classified it as spam, for example. So if you think you still haven't heard from us, please check your spam folder.

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ram1024
also, consider that your mail service for your ISP might just SUCK (as mine does) and perhaps that's the reason you haven't received a reply

i had to get a copy of the response from my co-founder. i think i'll use Gmail from now on :D

bigthboy
That's important to note, I know specifically that some non-major service providers (meaning: not Verizon, Comcast, etc.), sometimes don't even show you what spam you get. So, if your using a smaller service provider and you still haven't got it and its also not in your "spam box" there's likely two things that happened.

A) You didn't put your email in your profile "email" box. I would direct you to pg's post last night but its gone now.

B) Your service provider may use a special filter in front of your mailbox which means not only was it marked as spam but it was marked before it actually reached your email and just got tossed overboard in cyberspace. Though, one would expect the number of people to suffer from this problem to be small but it does happen.

What's unfortunate is if that e-mail that got lost was an invite. =C

pmjordan
Even gmail, etc. will reject a fair amount of spam outright, and you'll never see it; however, for those messages, the mail server won't even accept responsibility for the email, and the sender will instead get a failure notice. YC should be getting bounces if that happens.
ericwaller
I guess this has to do with the spam funding offer that was going around a couple of weeks ago claiming to be from PG. Maybe that whole bayesian mail filtering thing wasn't such a great idea after all..

Sorry, I just couldn't resist :)

callmeed
I applied but haven't received anything, including spam (gmail).
nikhils
same here. bizarre.
fusionman
gmail.....not in spam... still waiting
xenopia
Me too. If we're rejected, a rejection letter would be most appreciated.
fusionman
I got it....didn't think I did at first. The email address I have on my Y Combinator account is different than the one I put on my application. Maybe some of you did the same????