Gee, what happened to my email?
I’ve been getting an earful about email from campus colleagues lately. I understand your frustration when your inbox fills with emails you don’t want, or when you can’t send out emails that other people don’t want.
Yesterday, a colleague asked me why we had so much spam in our University email. She claimed she had never received a single spam message in her Google gmail account.
Really? Never? How could that be, I wondered?
Less than 24 hours later, Seth Godin wrote in his blog:
“I just discovered that my gmail spam filter has been blocking orders from Google checkout! Astonishing.
I have also heard from two people who applied to my internship and never got the note I sent announcing that we’d completed our hiring cycle . . . Stopping spam is a worthless endeavor when you also stop non-spam.”
It’s hard to make everyone happy when it comes to email.