-=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.
- From: "Cris" <cris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:34:38 -0500
Great Rule Troth!!
I don't mind the biggies - and have a friend who just got
DSL, and is having a blast forwarding them to me. Of course,
I've already seen most of what she is forwarding, but there
are a few that I haven't, and she's careful - knows the
rules - and only sends really good ones.
Cris
----- Original Message -----
From: ~OoO~
Several things you can do... although, they're not always
the most
convenient methods. "Convenient" to me is just hitting
forward, not fiddling
with all the header stuff. We talked about being able to put
in a bogus FROM
address. Well, you can always put in a modified email
address. For example,
if my address is sirtroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, I can instead put
for the FROM
field sir_troth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or
sirtroth_DO_NOT_REPLY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx This
way, the recipient will know its you, but can't reply by
just hitting REPLY.
Further, forwarding to a million people won't necessarily
get you on their
lists. But... this is protects from people hitting the
FORWARD and REPLY
buttons. Any common sense person can just look at it and
figure out the
address. This just makes it harder.
Of course, every situation tends to need a specific
solution. Awhile ago, I
had someone who continued to forward me mpeg joke clips.
While the majority
of the clips were 2MB to 4MB in size, some were almost 10MB.
Being that my
old Mindspring is only 10MB max, AND I receive a ton of
email regularly, I
really didn't need to have this "junk" mail sent. Not to
mention, that on
many occasions I check my mail from work, on a "dial-up".
Regardless of how
many times I told this idiot (who was a personal friend of
mine in
real-life) he continued to send them. He would say OK, and
then send. The
way I stopped it?... I set up a rule on my other mail client
that when there
was "any" mail from this guy that contained an attachment,
it would forward
it back to him 5 times, each with the attachment PLUS a
message telling him
the mail bounced because I do not accept attachments. To me,
it was a nice
auto setup. To him, it was inconvenient and annoying, and
baffled him why it
was bouncing. He actually believed it to be coming from the
mail server, a
true bounce. Result? It finally stopped.
---Troth
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