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

Re: Heh...

[johno.livejournal.com]

I use Mozilla with the Junk Mail controls turned on and well trained.

95%+ of my spam is auto deleted, I still get 10-20 messages a day that make it through.

Those are the ones not worth reporting to anyone as they the most obviously fraudulent.