The best messages are specific. If there's a piece of your work you'd hand to a machine if you could — a content pipeline, a localization headache, a CRM that's all manual — tell me that. It's usually where the interesting projects start.
I read everything myself. I'm in the Philippines, working with people worldwide, so a reply might land while you're asleep — but it'll be me, not an autoresponder. Fitting, given what I build.