It is – sometime soon – Saint Valentine’s Day. Every single company who sends me promotional email – which I don’t mind because sometimes it’s useful (it includes money off vouchers for one of my printing companies, for example) – and anyway I signed up to it – has been also sending me suggestions for presents for that special someone.

I don’t want these messages. I don’t want someone to suggest a pink iPod nano for my girlfriend because guess what I’m a girl and think my boyfriend – if I had one – would probably run a mile if I bought him a pink anything. At least, every boyfriend I ever had would have run.

I am wondering if there is a market for a mail filtering service that says “don’t send me promotional email that includes the word “Christmas” “romantic get-away” “Valentine” and such and lets the “we’re broke buy more stuff from us” emails through with the special offers.

Then I could skip out on the pink hearts and red hearts and lovey dovey nonsense.

Any thoughts?