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And its sister site, emailhasasubjectforareason.org
by jrootabega 8y ago
And its sister site, emailhasasubjectforareason.org
- lucb1e 8y agoTo prevent spam (very successfully, so far), I have users fill in their email address instead of displaying mine on my website. They get an email like this: From: lucb1e-$randomcode@example.com Subject: Email address for lucb1e Content: To contact me, just reply to this email! People use this, but not a single person changed the subject from "Email address for $me" to the actual subject of the message. Not one.
- jvolkman 8y agoMost people don't change the subject when replying to an email, which is what the content instructs them to do.
- dredmorbius 8y agoYou could programmatically vary the subject. Either by time/sender, or by lifting the first (or first statistically improbable) phrase from the message.
- lucb1e 8y agoI don't mind that much that I'd bother writing a script to take content from their email or something, I'm just surprised nobody uses subject lines.
- dredmorbius 8y agoPeople are very lazy.
- jrootabega 8y agoLike jvolkman says, I'd be worried changing it might break your mechanism. Not that that's what's driving most people's choices.