a que about email JUNK folder.
 

if you already had a back and forth and corresponded with a person via email. do subsequent emails go to JUNK?

we contacted a college kid for an interview. he responded with a "i cant do that time"? (personally, i would have ditched class for an interview and told my professor). so we offered him two more times. no response. we put him into a timeslot unilaterally. he finally got back to us this morning, a mere 2 hours from his timeslot. he cant do the timeslot we offered - AGAIN. he said everything went to junk. i say BS.

but can it happen? i am not an Outlook expert.

Yes it can happen.

But his lack of follow up when not hearing from you would invalidate him (for me) as a candidate.

Never had that situation happen. Sometimes when people send out to a group, but that hardly ever happens. Strange. I agree, it doesn't seem like a good situation to consider him as a serious candidate.

Yep, you can absolutely have correspondence with someone that you have had successful correspondence with start going to junk. You could even send 10 emails to a person and have only 2 or 3 get routed to junk. Sometimes the routing is less about the source and more about the subject or content. Short subjects or subjects worded certain ways can flag. Also bodies with minimal text can also flag as junk.

If he was a 70+ year old person, I might understand his issue. He has grown up and had email all of his life. He should know how to work an email account. He just did not really care enough to get back to you.

I bet $100 if he was exchanging email with a hot girlfriend that he is really into, he would have never missed a single email. Yours were not important to him.

I'm in IT, and I'm very technical. Sometimes email gets misrouted (into the wrong folder) or into junk, even for the best of us. You're just assuming the worst of this kid. They aren't all bad.

LOL textbook PPOT!

Q: Spam folder?

A: Kids these days

This, exactly.

Exactly.

It works on a Spam Score.

Things that indicate spam get tallied and if the score exceeds what the system admin defines then it gets bounced.

Those things are specific words or phrases, links, attachments, number of images, number of images and text ratio, basically a single graphic with no body copy has a high spam score.

One of the biggest false triggers is signature lines. People think it's cool to pollute their signature with all their social links including icons for them.

When you get a multi email back and forth thread all that **** multiplies in the thread and exceeds the limit of outbound links and graphics that an average email would normally contain and triggers the spam filter.

Yes it can. …but it’s also a good excuse for missing an email.

..but if he’s a kid, and worth a little effort, cut him some slack. How many times have you spaced out on something important?

When I am expecting an important email, I check my spam box and in box regularly. Sometime I don't notice the alert that new mail came in.

Sort of like sitting by the phone waiting for that important call back in the olden days before answering machines. If it is important, make extra effort!

EVERYONE has a good point.

thanks. thanks for letting me peek behind the curtain with respect to how the JUNK folder works. happy it's feasible.

I would NEVER look in a folder labeled JUNK fwiw .... nope :D.

Yeah, but we've already established that you're different (300k mile 80s El Camino in great shape, SC with huge miles that's still in great shape, etc...) than the average bear. Comparing yourself against the average, in at least some cases, is probably an apples and oranges sort of comparison.

Like I said, I work in IT. I'm very good at it, many aspects of it, and have been doing it for >20 years. I rarely check my SPAM folder for anything, because stuff rarely gets misrouted there.