Special notice to folks who email me...

[johno]

Even with the recent name change, I'm getting tons of spam. In fact, it's getting worse.

To deal, I'm getting ruthless with my spam removal from my inbox.

The following subjects are deleted from my mailbox without checking to see who it's from:

Starting with John, JohnO, Eoin, Tyedye or virtually any given name.
A blank subject, or (No Subject) {{{ Netscape/Mozilla's helpful blank filler.
Any subject with misspelled words or garbage text.
Hi, Hello, Long time, Do you remember me?


What does all this really mean?

Put a coherent useful subject on all emails or else I may assume it's spam.

Comments

Oh yeah!

[johno.livejournal.com]

I use lots of filters for my mailing lists and site/folks that I corespond with often, so usually when I see "This is not spam" in the subject or the first few lines of the body, it's gone.

If it's not obvious, tell me who and what you are.

I do it in IM, I'm now doing it with email too.