-=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.
- From: "Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:10:34 -0500
My pet peeve is people that forward you an email that was forwarded by
somebody else that got it forwarded to them by somebody else who also
recevied it as a forward from somebody that got it forwarded to them by
somebody else that got it forwarded to them... and so on ad infinitum. On
several occassions I have had to open as many as 30 or 40 messages to get to
what my "friend" wanted me to see.
I have preached on that topic so many times (along with the use of BCC) that
very few people send me forwards anymore.
Nowadays when I get a forwarded message that was not cleaned up or was
nested in another message I do a REPLY ALL to every address in every nested
message telling them that I have sold their email address to a dozen
different spammers. When they reply asking how I got their address I
explain how I got it and how they can prevent others from getting it. I
then suggest they tell their friends to protect their email address by using
the BCC function. I also tell them I didn't really sell their address.
Don
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bluebelle" <bluebelle1st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:10 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.
> Your point is good but I send jokes to people who forward my email address
> because they do not know how to cut and paste or forward without cutting
> addresses, AOL People seem to have a particular problem with this for some
> reason. So I have been writing from a throwaway address lately (hotmail
> rather than my main address, maybe I will go to gmail for this since
> hotmail
> is rather slow and balky sometimes).
> Someone I did NOT know actually answered one of the jokes I had sent to
> someone on my list. By accident --but that means my address is being sent
> out to potentially thousands of people. I have requested several times
> that
> they not forward my messages but cut and paste but I continue to get
> hundreds of email addresses forwarded to me so I know they are not cutting
> them out.
>
> Since there are a few people who reply it is not practical to send an
> address that is completely anonymous.
>
> Bluebelle
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