Someone do me a favor and send me an email with “Taiwan” in the subject.
I want to see if my filters work.
Some stupid Taiwanese company keeps sending me four meg movies about pistons.
Shyeah, that’s what you call great marketing tactics.
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
e-mail sent
What’s next, “Pistons II: This Time It’s Personal?”
“Taiwan on for me” sent.
J.
… because we all know it’s good marketing to harrass your customers to death with server-crushing amounts of spam. If you didn’t buy a product after one unsolicited 4M movie, maybe you will after receiving a thousand of them.
Sort of like the cliche’ about the guy who tries to pick up women with horribly cheezy one-liners. He is asked “does that ever work?” He answers “no, but all I need is one.”
I wonder what would happen if I titled a post “Taiwan” now….
Got none of your emails, by the way. The filter is killing them on the server. So much for my relationship with anything Taiwanese.
I have tried an e-mail myself, Meryl, mentioning–this is true–that last week I had a client whose name, spelled “Tywan,” was in fact pronounced “Taiwan.”
On the other hand, a couple of weeks ago another client proudly showed me a picture of her six year old who is, indeed, a cute kid and whose name is “Camry.” Like the car. After the car.
email sent
Alex: I met a woman who named her son “Tevyer” (sic) because she was in a high school production of
I also tried two emails one of which had “Taiwan” in the subject only and one which had it in the body as well.
Actually, since I started using gmail, I have not had to create a special purpose filter on my own platform (or even inside gmail). It appears that the gmail filter works very nicely at google’s system level.
Once a message gets through and I declare it as spam (at gmail.com) the google system filter blocks it very nicely.
Of course that means that I should first look at the mail via the web rather than my home platform first, but that is not really a problem.