direct e-mail: stand up, stand out and be counted

I have a direct e-mail pet hate – I simply get too many.  And that’s just the ones I subscribe to!  So I started a project.  Instead of hitting delete out of principle, before reading what the e-mail actually says, or hitting unsubscribe out of principle, before reading what the e-mail actually says; I decided to read each one and see how effective they are.