For what its worth, I was one of the Pradipta 416, a group of 416 recipients of an email seeking a Ruby on Rails developer. Trouble is, we weren’t BCCed, so it became a huge email thread and spawned a Google Group, a logo, a Twitter account, and a site where you can claim your badge of honor.
Many on the list weren’t even Rails developers and the list of victims was spread across the globe. It is appropriate at least that DHH was at least on the list, though we never saw a response from him.