I’ve noticed lately that anytime someone sends me an email with, oh, the letter “3” in it or, just as an example, the letter “a”, it’s flagged as spam and treated as such by whatever mail client I might be using at the time (web-based, Outlook, etc.).

This really bothers me. As a tax payer, I’d like to know that my hard earned cash is going toward a worthwhile fight against spam, and that we’re coming up with defenses that are actually going to, you know, like, work without sending every email from my grandmother to the email purgatory spamtrap.

The real problem here is no longer spam – it’s overzealous spam filters. The anti-spam technology crowd has such a hard-on for all these different weird filtering things and scoring methods that pretty much every single email currently being sent is counted as spam – except for the email that isn’t. Makes sense, of course. I get a lot of email about penis-enlargement systems (when, frankly, what I really need is a penis-reduction system, but that’s another post for another time), and those posts probably have the letter “p” in them, so it’s only logical to filter out EVERY SINGLE LAST FREAKING EMAIL WITH THE LETTER “P” IN IT AND MARK IT AS SPAM.

Right? RIGHT?!

So, tonight, I did something genius.

Yes – genius, dare I say it.

I simply renamed my “Inbox” folder to “Spam,” and my “Spam” folder to “Inbox.”

Now I get all my email being properly routed to where it’s supposed to go.

Problem solved.

And given to the public domain.

You’re welcome.