Email senders can also fight spam

I found this article a few days back and kept meaning to post it here because there are some good points here that I constantly think of when I'm sending email.

Here is the article: How the Sender Community Can Help Fight Spam.

On that subject, I also had quite a few clients that will send emails with no subject in the email, or something completely different than the contents of the email. For example, "Hi Graeme!!" or "Another email from me!" or "FYI". Which is completely non-descriptive of the email content. It's frustrating and I always will then just politely ask that they send emails with subjects that are pertinent to the information in the actual email. It's one person at a time, but it works and once explained once people get it.

Due to the amount of spam that comes through, it's getting a bit harder and harder to filter out the garbage and keep the good stuff when the sender doesn't make a bigger effort to not be caught by the filters. Ironically enough, it's the spammers that are making the biggest effort to not get caught by the filters..

So, if you have clients or friends that constantly write odd subject headers in emails, or often forget to even put one in, perhaps send them to that article. It covers some good points I think.

Posted by Graeme at March 11, 2007 06:16 AM