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Also can we call these something else? Bot is too overloaded a term. "Chatbot" is more accurate.

Beautiful collection! I'd love to convince you to reject from the collection any smarmbot emails -- http://blog.beeminder.com/smarmbot -- which I define as emails that pretend to be sent personally ("I noticed that you recently...").

I realize a lot of hackers (I've argued with @patio11 about this) don't see the problem with those. Maybe because it's inconceivable to us nerds how anyone could be deceived by them. But some people are and I think the best of both worlds can be achieved by either saying "we" instead of "I" -- as in "all of us, including the program that sends these emails!" -- or just appending something like "This email is obviously automated but you can reply to it and it will go straight to me personally!".