Why I’m Asking You to Add Me to Your Contacts

(and Why It Actually Matters)

If you’ve listed a rooster on the Registry lately, you might have noticed a little note asking you to add krystal@theroosterregistry.com to your contacts. I know that probably seems like a strange, small request buried in a bigger process, so I want to explain what’s actually going on and why it matters more than you’d think.

Here’s the short version: some of the emails the Registry sends (like “someone’s interested in your rooster!”) have been landing in spam or junk folders instead of your inbox. Not because anything is wrong with your rooster, and not because I did something wrong on my end. It’s just how email works right now for a site like mine.

Why does this happen at all?

Think of email providers (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, whoever you use) like a bouncer at a club door. When a brand-new sender shows up, the bouncer doesn’t know them yet, so they get a little extra scrutiny before they’re let in. The Registry’s email address is relatively new, and it hasn’t built up a track record yet with these bouncers. Over time, as more people open, read, and reply to Registry emails, that trust builds and fewer emails get stopped at the door.

The tricky part is that this Registry doesn’t email people constantly. You might get exactly one email, ever, letting you know someone wants your rooster. One single email isn’t much for a bouncer to go on. It’s like meeting someone once at a party six months ago and trying to decide if you trust them with your house key.

So what does adding me to your contacts actually do?

This is the fastest way around the whole “does the bouncer trust me yet” problem. When you add an email address to your contacts, you’re basically telling your email provider, “I know this person, let them straight through, no questions asked.” It skips the line entirely for that one address, regardless of how new or unfamiliar it looks to everyone else.

It takes about ten seconds and it’s the single most reliable way to make sure you actually see it when someone’s interested in your rooster.

How to do it (it’s genuinely quick).

Gmail: open any past email from me (or just add manually), click the three dots, and select “Add to Contacts”
Outlook: same idea, right-click the sender’s name or use the “add to contacts” option
On your phone: usually you can tap the sender’s name at the top of an email and there’s an option to save them as a contact

If you’re not sure how to do it on your specific email app, a quick search for “[your email provider] how to add a contact” will get you there in under a minute.

In the meantime, check your spam folder.

Until this settles, it’s genuinely worth a peek in your spam or junk folder every so often, especially if you’ve got a rooster listed and haven’t heard anything in a while. There’s a small chance someone’s already reached out and it’s just sitting there waiting for you.

I know none of this is why you came to the Registry, you came here for the roosters, not an email tutorial. But a missed message means a rooster who could’ve had a good home stays on the list a little longer, and that’s the whole reason any of us are here. So thank you for bearing with the technical stuff. It genuinely helps.