Re: CORRECTION Caller *urgently* needed for next Saturday! (Dec 3rd)

At 23:37:08 on Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Steve Cobham <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <225no1pd5ainntehed1v3otqc9hroou2hh@xxxxxxx>:

It's paid, and the details of this along with other other relevant
info can be obtained by emailing me at the munged up address in the
header of this post.

When you particularly want people to contact you, you might get better results if you didn't set them an initiative test before they can do so! The obvious thing to do with that e-mail address is to remove the nospam. Then one wonders - perhaps the mapson should come out too (although those who aren't into palindromes may very well not spot that one first time around) - or maybe it is supposed to stay in, because the domain might be something to do with both guitars and maps? Then there are two incidences of xx - are they supposed to be removed, or not? And, of course, a dot has to be added to make the format correct. All in all, the odds are against anyone making all the right decisions the first time. And if the first e-mail bounces, they may well not try again.

Why not just give out a phone number? Or (shock, horror) a working e-mail address? Addresses are not harvested from the bodies of posts, nor from the Reply-To header. (I blackhole all mail to my From address, but never get any spam to my Reply-To address, which works as it stands for human beings who want to reply to me.) By all means munge the From line, that's only sensible; but if you really want people to contact you, it's best to make it a little bit easier for them!
--
Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
(My Reply-To address *is* valid, though may not remain so for ever.)
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