TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Palm Treo 650

Re: Palm Treo 650

Mr Joseph Singer (joeofseattle@yahoo.com)
Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:29:51 PST

Thank you. I guess it has gotten to the point where sending to telecom
digest is a waste of time. I am a faithful reader and *never* in the
instructions for submission have you ever said anything of the kind.

--- TELECOM Digest Editor <ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> From: Mr Joseph Singer <joeofseattle@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Palm Treo 650

> --- TELECOM Digest Editor <ptownson@massis.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> Your recent submission to TELECOM Digest was rejected. If you feel it
> should be printed, please resubmit it with the Secret Word as part of
> the subject line.
> Editor, TELECOM Digest

> What's this "secret word" business? Since when is there a
> secret word to submit to Telecom Digest?

> When spam got to the point that about 95-98 percent of all incoming
> mail to telecom was spam, I changed from attempting to examine it and
> accept 2 or 3 percent while rejecting 95-98 percent of it and simply
> started rejecting all of it. Made it a lot easier for me. I of course
> still go through it now and pick out names I recognize (as I did with
> your name and subject) manually, but I do not read ANYTHING of it
> until I have first officially dumped all the spam (almost all of it).

> People who read the Digest on a regular basis know the secret word
> which is (secret word). If that word appears anywhere in the subject line
> then delivery of the message is sent a step further to a box of
> known writer/subscribers, etc.

> PAT

[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Although I _attempt_ to review all the
mounds of spam each day looking for any clues of a real person there,
you must admit 95-98 percent spam to real mail is a very high ratio.
Consequently, some good mail gets missed, sorry. But putting the
secret work in the subject line of each message absolutely assures
that your mail goes into a file for proper handling. PAT]

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