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E-Mail Forwarding Advice |
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We received this Email and
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A friend who is a computer expert received the following
directly from a system administrator for a corporate system.
It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of
us who send e-mails. Please read the short letter below,
even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures.
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LETTER TO MY FRIENDS: |
Do you really
know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT.
Do you wonder why you get
viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every time you
forward an e-mail there is information left over from the
people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail
addresses & names. As the messages get forwarded along, the
list of addresses build s, and builds, and builds, and all
it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her
computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that
has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of
those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them
in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make
five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that
inconvenience over a nickel! How do you stop it? Well,
there are several easy steps:
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(1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other
addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the
top). That's right, DELETE them. Highlight them and delete
them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how
to do. It only takes a second. You MUST click the
"Forward" button first and then you will have full editing
capabilities against the body and headers of the message.
If you don't click on "Forward" first, you won't be able to
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(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do
NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses.
Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing
the e-mail addresses. This way the people you send to will
only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see your
BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list
will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and
that's it, it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your
message will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in
the "TO:" field of the people who receive it. If that
phrase does not appear, type your own email address in the
"TO" field, but put everyone else's in the BCC field.
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(3) Remove any "FW :" in the
subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or
even fix spelling. |
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(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail
you are reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to
open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on
it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to
view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to
see what you sent. (AMEN!) If you can't forward from
that page, "Copy" the info and then open a new email blank
page and "Paste". |
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(5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It
states a position and asks you to add your name and address
and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address
book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect
thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The
completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to
a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names
and email addresses contained therein. If you want to
support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to
the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight
as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email
address on a petition. (actually, if you think about it,
who is supposed to send the petition in to whatever ca
use it supports? And don't believe the ones that say that
the email is being traced, it just ain't so!)
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One of the main ones I hate is the ones that say that
something like, -Send this email to 10 people and you'll see
something great run across your screen.-Or sometimes they
just tease you by saying something really cute will happen.
IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (Trust me, Im still seeing some
of the same ones that I waited on 10 years ago!) I don't
let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed.
(could be why I haven't won the lottery) Before you forward
an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other ones
floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward
them. Most of them are junk mail that have been circling
the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an
email that is in question can be checked out a Snopes. Just
go to
http://www.snopes.com/
. It is really easy to find out if it is real or not. If
it is not, please don't pass it on. So please, in the
future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses. |
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