Q: After I started chatting with a woman via an Internet message board, we gave each other our e-mail addresses to exchange recipes. Now she won’t stop writing me. Every day I receive jokes, chain letters, and other junk email from her. How do I call a halt to this barrage without changing my address.
A: You can start by simply asking her to stop. Be clear and tactful; in your next note, tell her you enjoy exchanging cooking ideas, but you just don’t have the time to read and respond to her daily messages. Let her know that a periodic e-mail is fine, as long as it’s not a joke or a mass mailing. That should do it.
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If she won’t stop sending you e-mails, you can set up a filter so that anything coming from her e-mail address goes straight to a specified folder. That way you won’t have to deal with her e-mails in your Inbox; you can either delete everything in that other folder unread, or go through them if and when you have time. Either way, they’re out of your way.