DON’T FORGET THE MAGIC EMAIL WORD
by Hazed
I need to remind you that if you are sending email to feedback or to me directly, you need to put “Fed2” in the subject line. If you don’t do that your email risks getting lost in the deluge of spam we receive in our inboxes.
Spam is one of the internet scourges we all have to put up with. Spam filters help, but the problem with them is that if you make them too tight to stop any unwanted solicitations getting through, you risk losing genuine email which is mistaken for spam. This is known as a false positive. Loosen the filters to stop that happening, and spam will find its way through – false negatives.
The way to get around this is to set up rules in your mail client that identifies emails that you know you want to receive, using certain criteria that they conform to. The obvious one is to whitelist email addresses for your friends, businesses you want to hear from, and mailing lists you have subscribed to. But that’s no help when a Fed2 player who has never emailed me before wants to get in touch.
So I’ve set up a rule that identifies genuine mail about Fed by looking for the magic word in the subject line: Fed2. Make sure you put that somewhere in the subject line and your mail won’t be consigned to the bit bucket.
