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Another tweak to the mail rules...
Aug. 31st, 2013 07:31 amI have an ever-growing set of "rules" for handling mail, most having to do with making sure messages from potential clients who send such messages to a non-work email appear in my work account.
A number of others have to do with filtering out crap. A few years ago, I ordered some flowers online, whereupon I started getting multiple emails per day, offering me "special deals" and so forth. The emails didn't stop when I attempted to "unsubscribe" from getting them, and after a few days of this, I called the company, whose representative claimed it took about a week for such requests to get processed. (They apparently were not aware of the powerful capabilities built into the computer technology they were using, which would allow virtually instantaneous processing of such requests, but I digress...).
Before a week had passed with no letup in the stream of incoming offers, I noticed the appearance of a second stream of spam from the same company (different name, same IPs in the mail) offering to send me chocolates of various kinds.
Realizing that calling simply alerted the company to the fact that I paid attention to my email, I went in and modified my rules to simply dump any mail from the company to /dev/null (the formal name for the ever-lovin' bit-bucket).
I've also begun to send companies who send idiotic requests for work to that same place.
The most recent example was a company that wants 9,000 words done my Monday morning ("please look at the content and let me know if this is your are expertise subject"), and offers to pay 4 cents per word. Ye gods.
I've got huge quantities of stuff to get done today, so I better get to it.
A number of others have to do with filtering out crap. A few years ago, I ordered some flowers online, whereupon I started getting multiple emails per day, offering me "special deals" and so forth. The emails didn't stop when I attempted to "unsubscribe" from getting them, and after a few days of this, I called the company, whose representative claimed it took about a week for such requests to get processed. (They apparently were not aware of the powerful capabilities built into the computer technology they were using, which would allow virtually instantaneous processing of such requests, but I digress...).
Before a week had passed with no letup in the stream of incoming offers, I noticed the appearance of a second stream of spam from the same company (different name, same IPs in the mail) offering to send me chocolates of various kinds.
Realizing that calling simply alerted the company to the fact that I paid attention to my email, I went in and modified my rules to simply dump any mail from the company to /dev/null (the formal name for the ever-lovin' bit-bucket).
I've also begun to send companies who send idiotic requests for work to that same place.
The most recent example was a company that wants 9,000 words done my Monday morning ("please look at the content and let me know if this is your are expertise subject"), and offers to pay 4 cents per word. Ye gods.
I've got huge quantities of stuff to get done today, so I better get to it.
