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I think that the pendulum may be swinging too far in the fight against spam in e-mail. Recently both my wife and I have been told that our mail is not getting through, apparently due to spam filters. My wife wanted to write the editor of the McMurry University newspaper, the War Whoop, to congratulate them on the quality of the paper. She used the e-mail address given in the paper and she got a message saying that it wasn’t delivered because they don’t accept spam. I sent an e-mail to a customer who ordered a book from me. I got a message saying that he may or may not have gotten the mail because I was not listed as acceptable. I didn’t hear from him, so I don’t know whether he opened my mail or not. It didn’t affect the transaction. I was just letting him know how I had shipped the book and gave him the tracking number. I can see where business orders can be lost because it is new customers who would order from you. We need a better way to handle spam. It is interesting that my new screen name I set up for my book selling business has not received one spam message. Apparently it hasn’t been picked up by the spam mailing lists. I don’t expect this to last too long, but it has been clear for over three months. In my other mail, I open it and either delete or report spam as I go through the list. I then read what is left. I delete the messages that are advertising or are something I don’t have time to read and report as spam all those that promise young naked women or want to improve some part of my anatomy. Clever spammers use messages like "your account has problems" that make you open it to see if it is legitimate. I don’t get many of those, but enough to irritate. I know, those of you who don’t use e-mail are happy that you don’t have to put up with these irritations, but remember that every good thing comes with some irritating side effects. Remember to put LW in the subject when you e-mail me at car926@aol.com so I won’t think it is spam. |
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