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Subject:RE: Am I a spammer? From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 27 May 2004 08:15:06 -0400
Same here. I've gotten to the point where I just summarily delete email
from anybody I donl;t recognize unless the subject line really makes it
look important. Alas, I have deleted several non-spam messages that
way. So O always tell people whose email addresses I don't already know
to be sure and put something in the subject line that makes it clear who
they are.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dana Worley [mailto:dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: Am I a spammer?
On Sunday, May 23, 2004, Bonnie Granat wrote:
> To clarify my earlier statements, I sent a three-sentence message and
> my resume to about 100 companies. Each company got its own
> individually addressed message.
A few months ago, I got a call from a woman who does contract
tech writing. She was following up on an email she had sent me. I
never saw the email. I told her it must have looked like spam and I
deleted it. She quickly answered, "it wasn't spam!".
Well, it wasn't spam but it looked like spam to me, so she was
wasting her time. I was out of the office this past Friday and
Monday; I have 1350 junk emails today. If I don't know you -- or your
subject line doesn't look like anything I need to pay attention to -- I
don't read you.
Make sure you have a clear subject line and that it doesn't appear to
be spam, or people like me will send it directly to the virtual round
file.
Dana W.
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