Someone Shares Their Story About How Not Checking Their Gmail Spam Folder Possibly Cost Them Their Whole Career
Who reads their spam? Our inboxes are bombarded with so many junk missiles, nothing good can come from it, right? Well, not exactly. Especially if you have ongoing correspondence that might accidentally end up where it shouldn’t be. And since most e-mail security systems arent 100 percent effective, soon or later such a mess up is bound to happen. Just ask /u/DoopleWrites. After finishing their book, they sent the manuscript to a bunch of publishers. As time passed, Doople thought they weren’t getting any responses and kinda forgot the whole thing. Until they opened their spam folder months later.
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“It took me a year and a half to finish writing and editing that book,” Doople told Bored Panda. “It’s a horror/thriller that follows the story of a college graduate taking a temporary job at a ski resort and finding out that the owners have more sinister plans for the staff.”
“I’ve written about 40 short stories and 2 other books before this one, but none of them were published.”
Sadly, the future for this one doesn’t look good, either. “I did [contact the publisher that got back to me], but I haven’t yet gotten a reply. I’m staying hopeful that they’ll still be interested!”
To make the writer feel better, some people started posting similar stories that happened to them
“Surprisingly enough, I haven’t experienced anything like this in the past,” Doople said. “Unless I just haven’t noticed it happening until now.”
According to Sleeknote, there might be a lot of reasons why the important letters that you receive end up in spam. The most popular ones include using spam trigger words (for example, “You’re the winner!”), added attachments (even if the virus scan says they’re clean, sometimes anti-spam filters might misinterpret the slow load time of the e-mail as something dirty), a large image with little text, and even incorrect spelling and grammar.
While others shared their general observations
This does not seem legitimate to me. Gmail automatically deletes spam emails once they reach 30 days old.
I think there's an option you can turn off. I don't use Gmail, but my Outlook account has that feature.
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I'm blown away that he didn't keep a copy of his manuscript. I am a writer and I obsessively keep every manuscript as well as a backup. That's hard work and dedication and I'm not going to just let it disappear. The market is fickle. Even if the work gets rejected now doesn't mean it won't be exactly what is wanted another time.
totally agree. I've got one book out and working on two more. I not only keep multiple back ups, I keep multiple drafts labeled as draft 1, draft 2 etc so I know what's been edited and if I want something I edited out later, I can just go back and get it from an earlier file. I also color code my research notes. And I don't know of anyone one who gets accepted first try. I got 3-4 rejections before hooking up with an interested publisher.
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I check my spam folder several times a day, every day! Can't believe people don't check daily... and I have 4 email accounts!
What bothers me the most is the this : if you are having an ongoing business conversation, and you don't get the answer, wouldn't you want to check the spam folder just in case ?
everytimethat I open my gmail to read my mails, I check my spam box and erase all.
I have Hundreds of emails in my gmail; I never read any of them and 90% of them are spam. Gmail likes to class them as different kinds of spam
I've had autograph requests go to the spam folder. Stinks, because I don't want people to think I'm ignoring them. I'm nice. I promise.
When I was writing my MA thesis I needed a certain academic book which would be a huge help for me. Unfortunately it was located in another country and there were some problems getting it via my university or the uni library in UK. Decided to write to the author and ask for the chapter I needed the most (found parts of in Google Books). Year later I got a reply with a pdf of the chapter I wanted. Too bad I didn't need it any more, lol. Please note the book was out of reach for consumers, i.e. it couldn't be bought on Amazon or eBay, and even if it was it would still cost a fortune.
I had to stop reading the other stories that were included that were like the main one because it was physically hurting me
You don't really have to avoid unvaccinated kids unless you're sick, it's not their fault they're unvaccinated :/ (I'm not antivax btw)
Load More Replies... When you don't know anything about spam, spoofing, spamfilters and algorithms, but heard someone mention blacklists in some vague youtube video, which makes you an expert on the matter.
Load More Replies... This does not seem legitimate to me. Gmail automatically deletes spam emails once they reach 30 days old.
I think there's an option you can turn off. I don't use Gmail, but my Outlook account has that feature.
Load More Replies... I'm blown away that he didn't keep a copy of his manuscript. I am a writer and I obsessively keep every manuscript as well as a backup. That's hard work and dedication and I'm not going to just let it disappear. The market is fickle. Even if the work gets rejected now doesn't mean it won't be exactly what is wanted another time.
totally agree. I've got one book out and working on two more. I not only keep multiple back ups, I keep multiple drafts labeled as draft 1, draft 2 etc so I know what's been edited and if I want something I edited out later, I can just go back and get it from an earlier file. I also color code my research notes. And I don't know of anyone one who gets accepted first try. I got 3-4 rejections before hooking up with an interested publisher.
Load More Replies... I check my spam folder several times a day, every day! Can't believe people don't check daily... and I have 4 email accounts!
What bothers me the most is the this : if you are having an ongoing business conversation, and you don't get the answer, wouldn't you want to check the spam folder just in case ?
everytimethat I open my gmail to read my mails, I check my spam box and erase all.
I have Hundreds of emails in my gmail; I never read any of them and 90% of them are spam. Gmail likes to class them as different kinds of spam
I've had autograph requests go to the spam folder. Stinks, because I don't want people to think I'm ignoring them. I'm nice. I promise.
When I was writing my MA thesis I needed a certain academic book which would be a huge help for me. Unfortunately it was located in another country and there were some problems getting it via my university or the uni library in UK. Decided to write to the author and ask for the chapter I needed the most (found parts of in Google Books). Year later I got a reply with a pdf of the chapter I wanted. Too bad I didn't need it any more, lol. Please note the book was out of reach for consumers, i.e. it couldn't be bought on Amazon or eBay, and even if it was it would still cost a fortune.
I had to stop reading the other stories that were included that were like the main one because it was physically hurting me
You don't really have to avoid unvaccinated kids unless you're sick, it's not their fault they're unvaccinated :/ (I'm not antivax btw)
Load More Replies... When you don't know anything about spam, spoofing, spamfilters and algorithms, but heard someone mention blacklists in some vague youtube video, which makes you an expert on the matter.
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