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You're right, transparent feigned interest will reduce the recipient's trust in the sender and probably others as well. I agree that we should promote trustworthiness and cooperation for a variety of very important reasons.
...BUT we need to quantify because AMF saves lives.
I pose the question: how much bullshit eliminates one WALY?
Send emails, then apologize...
I think it's possible to send versions of these emails which aren't annoying. I've sent a bunch myself and people haven't seemed to find them annoying.