I'm in the money

posted at 03:36:32
By Flipping Heck!

Posted In
GTD/Productivity

I was checking one of my email accounts that I use when you're required to stick an email address in something so subsequently it's spam central. I don't know about you, but I find some of these spam emails hillarious and I can't believe that people fall for them, It's a shame they do - don't get me wrong - but if an offer sounds too good to be true it usually is.

It turns out that I have won the UK National Lottery 14 times, winning a total of about £57 billion - not too bad, move over Bill Gates!

I've also been given money by 3 major UK high street banks, Coca-Cola, Microsoft and Yahoo! Nice!

Anyway, the point of this little tangent? Whilst I love spending ages trawling through my inbox for hidden gems from some poor women in Nigeria who's lost her husband in a freak bungee accident I know most of you don't.

So to keep your inbox free and your "Mind Like Water" by:

Setting up filters to remove spam automatically when you receive it.
Get some anti-spam software such as Spam Assain to nuke the blighters before they reach your inbox
If a message does hit your inbox, don't just delete it mark it as spam. Most modern email programs learn really quickly what you like and don't like.
Regularly scan your junk mail folder and mark any non-spam messages, that way you spend less time hunting for that email your Aunt May swears she sent you - the next time it'll go straight into your inbox
Don't click the "unsubscribe" link in any Spam email, that'll just flag that your address is live and you'll get tonnes more junk
If you have your own email address (i.e. yourname@yourdomain.com) don't set up a catch-all email address, specify each address you want to receive mail - you can always forward them to a single account. If you have a catch-all you open yourself up to a "Joe Job" (as I found out with my previous host).

Okay, so the above is common sense but sometimes a little reminder is needed in order to clear out inboxes and be more productive - don't spend hours reading Spam like me!