MINIPROMPT: What Is A New Term for Your {Spam Folder}?

A Monty Python sketch is credited as inspiration for why we use the word “spam” to describe our email junk mail. Now, it’s your turn.

What is another word or phrase that could be used to name your junk email folder?

Jillian Conochan

I’m putting my thang down, flipping it and reversing it and calling my Inbox my SPAM folder, because don’t email me.

Kelaine Conochan

It’s not spam. It’s not junk mail. It’s the Rot Box, filled with the decaying remains of the emails you never asked for, never wanted, never saw. Occasionally, something will land there that you actually hoped would make it into your inbox, but for whatever reason, The Algorithm forces it into this muckpile. So you have to put on your gloves and dig around the composted, lumpy stink to find it. It’s a little dangerous. A little smelly. But part of the circle of life.

Ariel Cross

The “nope.” Folder

That’s what I say out loud every time I get spam.

Josh Bard

Oh you haven’t renamed your Spam folder after your least favorite place on Earth? A spot completely shielded from light and goodness? A location where happiness is unwelcome. An area that spews vileness and deceit. A site where trash ends up piled on top of itself until it’s created a trash-like arch.

A place where the drear flows like wine, and miserable people instinctively flock, like the salmon of Capistrano? I’m talking about a little place called Missouri.

I named my Spam box “Missouri,” and it’s probably an insult to boner pill pushers and insurance scammers who are trying their best.

Dilane Mitchell

My spam folder is called DGAF and I may have set up a rule to send a few coworkers to that folder on purpose. I check daily so I don’t miss anything, but only when I feel like it.

Sam Hedenberg

I call my spam folder the “scout folder,” because that’s where all of the emails from my son’s scoutmaster end up.

I don’t know what kind of job this guy has, but he somehow has the time to email troop parents 3-4 times a day. And these aren’t bullet point flyers about upcoming events; they’re dense enough to intimidate a Russian lit major. You have to dig for info like Howard Carter in Egypt.

He sends SO MANY EMAILS I didn’t even have to create an inbox rule to dispose of his messages. My iCloud account was smart enough to say “this guy seems to email you a lot of worthless things. We’ll just take care of this for you.”

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