KOTOBOT your email addresses
December 18th, 2008Do yourself a favor and start a database or spreadsheet,
and mark down which of your addresses you use and where.
If you use an address in an auto-responder, on a page,
in a blog, ANYWHERE, where you tell people to respond
to you, write it down!
If you don’t, you will wind up with a Chinese Firedrill.
Any time you change or abandon or forward addresses,
or use an auto-responder to tell people to use a different
address, check that spreadsheet and make sure you are
not creating a loop or directing people to dead addresses.
Unless you are a web host and control the servers, it is
also a good idea to have an emergency address for your
buddies to contact you, in case your domain gets blocked
or there is some problem. If that address doesn’t show on
any web page, it won’t attract spam
You can set up your email program to also check that
address. There is no need to check it separately.
However, when you notice that the only incoming mail
is via the secret buddy alert address, then you know that
there is a problem somewhere.
Have FUN!
DearaWebby

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