I don’t know if this is a general question or an ATMB type q, so please feel free to move, & sorry for making more work Manny!
How much mail do people tend to get from the mail info in their profiles?
I didn’t put my email address in as I’m a tad paranoid about getting tons of spam or whatever, so I’m curious - do people get nothing from other dopers, a bit of mail, some from particular friends, spam from a webcrawler, or a whole torrent of mail from dopers?
& if the answers are no spam, then I might put my address in (yeah I can hear the cheering (or jeering?) from the back of the room, I know it’s not that big an event on a global scale!)
I have had four emails since November 1999. Two were in response to a thread where I specifically said “feel free to email me”. None from mods, no flames, nuthin’ remarkable. I still use a disposable webmail address to be on the safe side though. I wouldn’t worry about it if I was you.
I have my e-mail enabled and have received only three unsolicited e-mails- two of which thanked me for a response to a GQ, the other asked a follow-up question. I haven’t had any problems- yet. AFAIK, I’ve gotten no spam due to enabling e-mail.
Thank you for your answers. I think now it should have been in IMHO, but I think of polling as meaning voting…I don’t know if that’s an English thing, or just me being “late-Friday-ish” if that makes any sense to you (try dumb…)
Yeah, definitely IMHO material. I’ve had it enabled since January, when I joined, and I’ve gotten about six or eight e-mails that I know were from it. No flames, just follow-ups to things on the boards. I’ve gotten a few spams since then, but I can’t be sure if they got my address from the boards, since I’m not too secretive about it.