Write Queen Warns Her Readers About Spam

Most, if not all, people who have a computer write emails, and receive them. Unless you are from Outer Mongolia all of my readers have heard of SPAM. I am going to list some of the violations people are guilty of, knowingly or not, when they write emails, along with some comments of my own.

Don t ever send more than 250 emails concurrently to an AOL address. Speaking of AOL, watch them. If you even breathe near AOL s website they might charge you for something you didn t intend to purchase. Then trying to get the charge taken off will almost cost you your sanity and I know whereof I speak. Also, again I know whereof I speak, if you pay for an AOL address, be aware that you are not possibly getting all your email. I have a business where it is necessary to send emails to people who have legitimate AOL addresses, and most of them come back address unknown. Do you get the idea I don t like AOL. You got it.

Here are some more things to watch out for when you re sending emails to help you avoid the spam cops .

Don t ever use upper case, especially in the subject line. Caps mean shouting in computer vernacular. Always use sentence case in your message.

Don t use the word remove Use unsubscribe instead.

Don t start your subject line with Dear .

Don t put ADV in your subject line.

Don t overuse punctuation, like !!!, , etcetera.

Don t use BBC, and certainly not CC, when sending emails. (I ve done that more than once.)

Don t overuse marketing phrases.

Don t use priority option. (I ve also been guilty of that.)

Something else I have read. Don t use the dollar sign ($) in either the subject or in the body of your email.

If you get an email with a period where you don t think it should be, it is the writer just trying to get past the spam cops It is annoying, I know, but understandable

One more thing. Anybody trying to solicit you must by law (can-spam act) put their complete contact information at the bottom of the email. This is to protect you from shysters who don t want to be found after the fact

HAPPY MAILING!

Remember, always, God loves you and so do I.