bird - 2:53 pm on Jul 6, 2002 (gmt 0)

I don't think anyone I know has ever used my name in the subject line of an email...

That surprises me, mivox, unless you don't use this nick anywhere else but here and in your personal domain name.

I was stupid enough to register my most common real world nick as my primary domain. This means that I regularly get emails with a subject line similar to "question about xxx on www.<mynick>.com". Since I explicitly offer to answer questions about my site subject, I better make sure those really reach my inbox.

And then there are the game servers where I registered with the same nick, that will send me the game records as "<mynick>-<opponent>-200206121332", where the numerical part is the exact date and time of the game I played (and no, I didn't really play a game at that specific time... ;)).

Luckily, the "went to your pages-http;//www.<mynick>.com/blah/" and "<mynick> learn all about HGH" spammers tend to make at least a dozen other mistakes in their messages besides this one, so they're still trivial to filter out.