Yes, but I assume that was just for human consumption. This probably makes it easier to automate the ~1k emails they have to send.

I'm pretty surprised, I mean writing a script to slurp the emails can't take more than a couple of minutes.

A lot of people omitted to include any email addr even in the body of the application.

Sounds like you have a pretty good applicant filter for free =)

Apparent news.yc bug: this comment isn't showing up on http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

Yes it is, or at least it is now.

Strange. It isn't for me, yet I'm seeing another that was posted more recently.

Me, too, on both counts.