It's been years coming, but I've finally taken steps to reduce email spam. It was always a pain, but so easy to delete and sometimes mildly entertaining. Plus, it always bugged me to find out that a person didn't reply because my address was deemed spam by a machine. Now, I guess I'm part of that problem.
Just now, I enabled a Spam Assassin on my wonderful web host, Dreamhost. It's apparently pretty aggressive, so I've taken the time to go through a bunch of old emails and whitelist everyone I can find. This was actually a good exercise because it reminded to get in touch with some old friends.
I tried to get everyone on the whitelist that I'm communicating with regularly, but I may have missed some. I promise to keep up with quarantined emails, but I wanted everyone to know that the filter is in place, just in case.
Let's hope it works.