I just finished checking my email. Because of my public expose from various web pages and web sites I operate, I receive a huge volume of email, hundreds per day. 98% of that email is total spam junk. My filters do a great job of trashing that part of it but they are not perfect. I do scan the spam pile very quickly before final annihilation and very occasionally I find something I do want to read.
The point is that spam pile gets about 10 seconds of my time per day. If a good email doesn’t grab my attention in the scrap pile in that 10 second scan, then it is gone forever. I figure if it looks like a spam, the filters thought it was spam, then it is a spam. If I don’t respond to an email it is probably because it looked like a spam to me!
We all know what spam headers look like. They are easily recognizable. If I get a good email in a similar format, it is going to be a goner. So the lesson is to be sure you are not using a service that caters to spammers, as the entire domain is probably filtered out. Use meaningful titles to messages that don’t read like the dribble spammers use.
So if I don’t respond, it’s probably not because I don’t want to. I just can’t see you in the forest, too many trees. ~ Dan’l