It's hard but I am trying to train myself to remove the forwarded addys. If others can't remember to do that or don't know how at least I can try. ML ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott" <millop69@xxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:37 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails. HAHA! Great idea Don. I think I will have to try that one. Thanks, Scott. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk