I have an unusual last name that can be sometimes found in spam/junk related emails. Think something like ‘enlarge’ that is innocent on its own, but can be not so innocent when used with other words. Personal email accounts are easy to adjust, but I am now working at a large institution where the email address is firstname.lastname@company…
Lately, I have had emails not get to their destination or blocked altogether and I can see no other reason for them not going through. I do a lot of cold emails so cannot always have people add me to their contacts. I did have this problem sometimes when I used my name with gmail. Not sure if company would let me change anything. Any suggestions on how to handle this?
Can you use a higher order ASCII character in your name. One that looks like the same letter, but might not be recognized as such by the computer. Most vowels have accented forms. You would need to keep the original address as well at least to forward, as those not replying to an email would probably type the standard character.
Adding letters to the surname will simply incur the Scunthorpe dilemma. Perhaps they could let you have a second email username that might be your company position?
Get them to set up an alias on the mail server. It should be easy - then the standards-compliant version will still work (and nobody sending mail internally will get confused), but you can publish an external-facing email address that doesn’t trigger false positives on people’s spam filters.
What is the Scunthorpe dilemma? I tried onelook dictionaries, Wikipedia, and a Yahoo search. Nothing turned up. The closest I got was a story about switching goalkeepers on the Scunthorpe football team.
Scunthorpe problem – basically, text (webpages, email, whatever) gets blocked because of a string of letters in the middle of a word appears to be obscene. In the case of the town of SCUNTthorpe, Lancashire, AOL would not let residents register because their filtering software blocked the town’s name.