ErinIs.com

Like most people in the mid-twenties, my first email address was through AOL and I have not actually used it since 2002.  I do occasionally check in on it either out of bordeom/curiosity or to open a password retrieving email in which case as soon as I find what I’m looking for I delete everything else. I have not provided that email to anyone in at least 6 maybe even 7 years which is why I am always so surpised at the volume of emails I receive. This is a snap shot of what I saw when I logged in tonight. Oy vey. Does no company actually clean this list?!

1.Some senders delivered mail to my stale inbox EVERY DAY. I’m looking at you Gregory Shoes and GOP US media.

2. Any list I actually signed up for was at least 5 years ago. FIVE YEARS. If a user has not opened, let alone clicked on your email in five years, purge them from your list. And Delias I don’t doubt I signed up for your emails, probably when I was a sophomore in high school because you make pre-teen clothes. A decade later I am not  a viable customer. You can remove me from your list.

3. When an email starts with gibberish such as “dedlekis” spells calls as “Clalls” and contains punctuation like a 13 yr old on Myspace “WEEkendSAleOnline”, 99% of the time its spam.

4. The little certified mail emblem (see blue circle) if an email from Carmax which I definitely did not sign up for. What is the point of a certified sender list if those certified senders still send spam emails?

5. My favorite of all emails is from unknownsender@unknowndomain. Hey AOL how did this one get past your spam filters as legitimate email? And while we are on the subject of spam, how is it you let 893 emails through and only caught one of them as spam? Are you even trying?