MetaFilter posts tagged with emails

An ongoing project illustrating the titles of emails found in your spam/junk box.

chunking express — Thu, 14 May 2009 08:30:08 -0800

Spam by Elliott Burford. An ongoing project illustrating the titles of emails found in your spam/junk box.

Postcards from Yo Momma

chunking express — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:03:05 -0800

The Man Who Loves Spam.

GaelFC — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 12:57:27 -0800

The Man Who Loves Spam "[Orlando] Soto routinely comes home to some 150 e-mail pitches, and he loves getting them all. The 45-year-old grandfather opens most of them. He answers spam questionnaires. And he buys stuff pitched in spam e-mail -- again and again." Ugh. Thanks a lot, Mr. Soto. You're keeping this industry alive. (WSJ link, via Obscure Store.)

everything.they.ever.typed@enron.com

me3dia — Mon, 06 Oct 2003 09:01:18 -0800

Browse 1.6 million of Enron's emails for free, courtesy of the Federal Energy Regulation Commission. (Click on the "search iCONECT link in the table on this page, and wait through the slow Java check.) In among the secret dealings and strategic discussions are personal emails about one night stands and evil mother-in-laws.
[via this WSJ article]

Interview with Ze Frank

atom71 — Wed, 04 Dec 2002 20:52:38 -0800

Interview with Ze Frank - "online performance artist and humorist". A link to the first of his projects, a wildly successful party invite, "How to dance properly" was posted on metafilter in March 2001. "I sent the link to 17 friends ... By Monday it was getting over a million people a day, and I was getting over seven e-mails a minute." See the various stats pages for a funny summary of the contents of some of those e-mails.

TiggleTaggleTiger — Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:20:39 -0800

I thought only movie industry people were allowed to be this full of crap. Apparently the privilege extends to TV people as well.
Thanks Boing Boing.

palegirl — Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:22:08 -0800

A Clarification -- Dave Eggers wants to expose the process, "By reprinting your correspondence to me I hope to illuminate the journalist's mind: how a writer starts by telling me he is a fan of my work, supports my company's endeavors, etc, then writes a snippety little thing full of sneering and suspicion." so he's posted ALL of the email correspondance he had with david kirkpatrick before this unflattering piece was printed... and after.
"I think it's important that our exchange be published. It's the only remedy commensurate with the impact you enjoyed with your original piece. I want your friends and family to see it, and to say 'David, ew.'"
Meanspirited all around, but can you blame him?

syzygy — Sat, 29 Jul 2000 03:37:24 -0800

I've been converted - Earlier today, I was arguing with some coworkers to the effect that napster was protected and should be free and clear. Between the document at the above link and the information in the RIAA injunction brief, it looks like I might have been wrong. Why can't these guys use more discretion in their e-mails? They might have been OK if they'd kept their mouths shut.