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Controlling E-Mail Response From New Contacts

Each time you send an e-mail to a URL, you provide that addressee with your own URL. In many situations, you want to make an initial contact with a new addressee but are not sure that any further contact will be wanted.

EPA's "Wanted Subject Matter" preference allows you to control the number of responses that an e-mail's addressee can send to you. To apply this control:

1. Generate a "Wanted Subjects" preference entry consisting of some arbitrary word(s) or text string(s) - "garage sale" or "XqPzTy" for examples.
2. In the e-mail you send, state that any e-mail response to you must contain "garage sale" or "XqPzTy" in one of the e-mail's text fields.
3. Assuming that the "TO:" field of an e-mail is not one of your "Public Correspondents" preferences and that the "From:" field of an e-mail is not one of your "Private Correspondents" preferences, EPA will accept for mail for delivery only if a "Wanted Subjects" preference entry is matched in an arriving e-mail's text.
4. You can maintain the response control as long as you wish. To eliminate further e-mail from that URL, you need only remove the associated "Wanted Subjects" preference entry. Further e-mails will be treated as "unwanted". (If you want to continue contacts, you can create a "Private Correspondents" preference entry for the associated URL.)