Important Note on Email Subs

[Deirdre]

So I sent a followup to an author's query, and got the following:

"To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I have approved beforehand."

It had a link I could click if I chose, and the editorial mailbox would happily be added.

Isn't it just unprofessional to assume that an editor's e-address is spam?

If you have such a system and submit to an editor electronically, please add the submission email address before sending.

[MumblingSage]

Wow. That's awkward. Not to mention unprofessional, and inconvenient to you. Therefore counterproductive to the author.

Thanks for sharing--now I have more fun things to worry about when submitting through email! :D I should check how my incoming messages are filtered...

[nevada]

I believe Miss Snark ranted about that once. I think it's a total noob thing to do, myself. If you dont want spam, have an email addy that you only use for submissions. I do that and i never get spam in that inbox.

[maestrowork]

Many email programs automatically add the address to your "allow" list when you initiate the send. But yeah, I think it's rather silly not to make sure you don't already especially when you have anti-spam turned on.

[benbradley]

Well, this is certainly shooting yourself in the foot when submitting by email...
I believe Miss Snark ranted about that once. I think it's a total noob thing to do, myself. If you dont want spam, have an email addy that you only use for submissions. I do that and i never get spam in that inbox.
What's worse, for every spam (and any OTHER email you get from someone not already in your "whitelist"), this thing generates ANOTHER outgoing email from your ISP on your behalf - for spam, this autoresponse email goes either to a nonexistent email address, or to a poor person whose address was forged in the original spam email. I recall when this "feature" came out years ago - many system administrators didn't like these things because of the additional load they put on email servers.

But maybe that's a rant for a different forum...

[inkkognito]

I can see both sides of this...for years I had Mailblocks (before they were sold out to AOL) and loved it. It really kept the spam at bay. And although I could have added an address, an editor might not necessarily reply from the same one that you send your submission to. Often there might be a catch-all, and then they respond from their personal email.

Still, there are ways around that. Mailblocks allowed you to set up filters, so I would have set up one that would let mail with certain key words come through automatically.

Of course, now I have the opposite problem. My Gmail puts many of my query responses automatically into spam. Ugh!