barely into the new year

and I'm throwing in my first Sound Off post. Figured it would be to start early, before the minor annoyances really pi$$ me off.

- this one is relatively new to me, but I have been getting a series of responses to ads, inquiries about available animals, and husbandry type questions with bad email addresses. My time is incredibly valuable to me, and I don't like other people wasting it...so it is frustrating to type out informative responses (sometimes this includes sending new pics, which is a multistep process with my current system: take, load, transfer, backup, resize, send) only to get the Mailer-Daemon notice that it was undeliverable.

- another email annoyance of late is a variety of spam that has been coming through my business address with subject lines that actually compel me to open/look. Things like: "about your ad", "boas & pythons", "snake question", and "venomous find". new and appropriate headings delivering the same old crap.

- and let us not forget, everybody's favorite: the person that owes me money...no further comment necessary, lol

Yeah they keep trying to get us to look at the spam,, my problem with adds of late is the folks with heavy duty Spam filters who keep emailing me but never see my replies because it's in their junk mail and they don't think to look there. Randy

Here's a little time saver on those undeliverable e-mails.

When you get a request that you know will take more than a minute or so to fill you can do this. Send a test reply telling the person that the reply is a courtesy reply to let them know that you received their e-mail and that you will be sending an answer to their questions/request later on in the day.

Originally Posted by garweft

Here's a little time saver on those undeliverable e-mails.

When you get a request that you know will take more than a minute or so to fill you can do this. Send a test reply telling the person that the reply is a courtesy reply to let them know that you received their e-mail and that you will be sending an answer to their questions/request later on in the day.

You could do that to all the emails that have sent you messages too, and see which are good/bad

What a good simple idea. :P

Originally Posted by garweft

Here's a little time saver on those undeliverable e-mails.

When you get a request that you know will take more than a minute or so to fill you can do this. Send a test reply telling the person that the reply is a courtesy reply to let them know that you received their e-mail and that you will be sending an answer to their questions/request later on in the day.

I have my email system set up to do this automatically. As soon as an email comes in it sends out an autoreply telling them that I will be in contact shortly. If it comes back bad I know to not even bother with it. It has been a real time saver for me.

I think they should do a major motion picture 'Spambot' starring the governor of California as a bot with the finish truly evil.

The hero bot tracks down those dirty filthy no good spammers and ties them securely in a chair one to a room, facing a computer, and ten feet further down has a shotgun fixed high on the wall pointed down at the dirty spammer so the computer is out of the line of fire. The gun has a chip that programs it to fire when the email in the 'in' box fills at 100. One by one, the spammer watches ads being sent in.......

Originally Posted by garweft

Here's a little time saver on those undeliverable e-mails.

When you get a request that you know will take more than a minute or so to fill you can do this. Send a test reply telling the person that the reply is a courtesy reply to let them know that you received their e-mail and that you will be sending an answer to their questions/request later on in the day.

A good idea, and one I have used x2...with little success. I sent one test email after my first response bounced back...it went through, so I re-sent my initial email in a slightly condensed form - it came back