E-MAIL TIPS

James Joyner · Wednesday, November 5, 2003 · 2 Comments

Meryl Yourish provides some handy dandy hints for those sending her e-mails:

Please do not title any email to me “hi.” That’s one of the major spam subject lines. If I don’t recognize the author, I delete it automatically. And I’m awfully suspicious of most email titled “re:” if I didn’t send it first. I know you mean it as “In regards to Post X,” but I may have reflexively deleted it by the time I realize it was legit.

Oh, and here’s a big, big tip for free: If your email is titled “up yours,” or something similar, I see no need to read it. Ever. If you’re going to insult me, you really have to be far more clever than that.

Indeed. As everyone knows, “Up yours” goes in the closing, right before the signature block.

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James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. Follow James on Twitter.

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hln says:

Wednesday, November 5, 2003 at 13:24

Up yours is pretty infantile. And dull! I mean, can’t trollers be more creative? There’s always the Shakespearean Insult generator.

hln

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Friday, November 7, 2003 at 18:13

Hunting The Snark – Week 12
The Hunt has reached puberty, which means that if you thought you’d seen snippy Snarkage, be warned: it only gets pissier from here. So, in celebration of this milestone, I present the pubescent, puerile link plethora known as the Hunting of the Snark….

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