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Priority Email Day Two

Posted on February 24, 2008 in The Web by Andy @ Yellow Swordfish9 Comments »

Having emptied all mailboxes by midnight last night the count today – 24 hours later – of worthless emails: 18,231
I could get violent at this kind of number

9 Responses to “Priority Email Day Two”

on 24 Feb 2008 at 9:26 am1wonkotsane

Are they all going to your real address or just random addresses at your domain?

I sent you an email the other day, I guess it got caught up in the spam?
on 24 Feb 2008 at 9:44 am2Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

wonkotsane: Morning Wonko. These are, as you would suspect, random addresses at my domain. I always trawl the junk for false positives but when it’s this kind of number then it’s just not possible. So I guess yes, it got lost in the rush. Sorry about that.
on 24 Feb 2008 at 10:11 am3wonkotsane

Don’t worry about it, I’ll drop you another mail now you’ve cleared out your inbox. If you want a patriotic spam-free address just let me know, I’ve got just the thing.

Have you tried turning off the catch-all on your domain so you only get email sent to a valid address?
on 24 Feb 2008 at 2:35 pm4Jake

I know how you feel about Google, but seriously – I run all my mail through gmail, and they take care of pretty much all my spam for me. I used to download it direct to my desktop mail client via POP3, and I’d never have to know how many spam mails there were or bother about cleaning them out or anything - only the regular mail came down.

Turning off the catch-all address is a good move, though. If people are genuinely emailling you, surely they’ll know your email address?

(Also, I’m still having to edit all the spaces out of things I post here and replace them with real spaces – it seems your editor control halfway through a comment starts to think it’s fun to replace all of them with non-wrappable ones…)
on 24 Feb 2008 at 4:16 pm5Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

I’m doing both now as well (catch-all and using gmail as a filter).
The weird thing about the editor is that this only seems to happen to you. Could it have something to do with Opera?
on 25 Feb 2008 at 11:44 pm6Jake

It’s entirely possible it has something to do with Opera, since that doesn’t have the exact same JavaScript parser as FireFox or IE. But it’s not something I’ve ever noticed on any other WP site. I guess most of them are probably still using the default Wordpress comment box, though…
on 27 Feb 2008 at 1:13 pm7LG

I used Opera 9.26 for my comment on another post, everything seemed fine. But, Andy, you tell me
(Opera doesn’t really like wysiwyg editors. TinyMCE for example, almost drove me crazy on a Joomla install.) -this comment too is with Opera, so…
on 27 Feb 2008 at 6:17 pm8Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

LG: Thanks for this. Came out just perfect. Weirder and weirder really….
on 07 Mar 2008 at 1:33 pm9Malc

Proof that Andy has his finger on the pulse…….

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7281707.stm