What recruiter emails DO you respond to?

Are there recruiter emails/inMails you respond to positively? What gets you interested? What are some things that absolutely need to be in the email for you to respond?

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Some degree of personalization (my name and a line or two saying why they decided to reach out to me specifically.)

The role they're pitching is relevant to my experience and skills.

The employer and role is described. I get recruiters can't always give out the company's name, but industry/relative location/earnings estimate is crucial. 
BigCheese
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Agency Recruiter
This is how I try to cater all of my messages. Also, I almost always provide salary range.
funcoupons
WR Officer
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Thank you for being one of the good ones. A lot of recruiters don't realize that not doing these basic things wastes their own time. 
BigCheese
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Agency Recruiter
I worked at a company that trained its recruiters on the spam method. Hated my job after I caught on. Lots of terrible companies and recruiters. 
funcoupons
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Bleh. I was a recruiter for just under a year. It's an industry that has a lot of greasy and straight up bad at their job people who give all recruiters a bad name. 
BigCheese
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Agency Recruiter
Yup, you nailed it on the head right there. It's also a lot of people straight out of college not knowing what they're doing at those big companies.

Lots of money to be made as a good recruiter at a good company. 
Lambda
Tycoon
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Sales Consultant
i wish i got recruiter emails!
ElectricType
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Sales Manager
I answer most often, positive or negative, when it is personalized and I can tell they looked at my LinkedIn page. Then it comes to if the job meets my background and appropriate industry. I find most recruiters that InMail me mistake what I can or cannot do by not looking at my industry background, not sure if this is based off an algorithm though. 
CuriousFox
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Personalized to the point I believe they actually read my page. And give me a salary range. 
DonDraper
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National Sales Manager
Depends how good a job of selling their service they do. It has to be relevant to me.
Salespreuner
Big Shot
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Regional Sales Director
Purely personalized and related to what I plan to move to!
Prizrak
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Disruptor of worlds
I have learned to do a discovery message string with them. Anyone interested will be willing to give you more info about the role. Anyone who doesn't give you more info without a call is a total waste of time and they know it. They need to give me what they do, why the want me, and a salary range. If the salary sounds at all out of range I ask how many people are currently in my role there. Then I ask how many of them make more than the amount they told me I should expect to make. 
If they make it through that it is at least worth my time on a call. 
cw95
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Sales Development Lead
Just ones that are relevant and actually give you something. SO many times I have had recruiters just say words towards me to which I have responded 'I don't really get what you are trying to get me to do? You haven't told me anything about the Job, only how much X company has raised'. 
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