-=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.

  • From: "cristy" <poppy0206@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:53:53 -0500

Keyboard, what are all these weird symbols when you post below =AO etc..

christy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Keyboard Cowboy" <KBCowboy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Don" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:50 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.


> Don,
>
> I agree with your premise.....but damn you're mean!  <laugh>  I just 
> delete=
> those multiple forward messages.....many times they no longer work anyway=
> as the picture or whatever is damaged, specially when they come from a=
> AOHell account, etc.
>
> =A0 Regards from
>
> Bob -- the "Keyboard Cowboy",
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 ,,,,,,,,
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=D4=BF=D4=AC
> =A0 =A0Cincinnati, Ohio
> Scottsdale, Arizona
> ---------------------------------
> Thursday, 3/3/2005, @ 1:49:16 PM EST
> ---------------------------------
> Aptitude determines Altitude!
>
>
> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D|:o:|=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:10:34 -0500, Don wrote:
> =A0 | =A0 My pet peeve is people that forward you an email that was
> =A0 | =A0 forwarded by somebody else that got it forwarded =A0to them by
> =A0 | =A0 somebody else who also recevied it as a forward from somebody
> =A0 | =A0 that got it forwarded to them by somebody else that got it
> =A0 | =A0 forwarded to them... and so on ad infinitum. =A0 On several
> =A0 | =A0 occassions I have had to open as many as 30 or 40 messages to 
> get
> =A0 | =A0 to what my "friend" wanted me to see.
> =A0 |
> =A0 | =A0 I have preached on that topic so many times (along with the use
> =A0 | =A0 of BCC) that very few people send me forwards anymore.
> =A0 |
> =A0 | =A0 Nowadays when I get a forwarded message that was not cleaned up
> =A0 | =A0 or was nested in another message I do a REPLY ALL to every
> =A0 | =A0 address in every nested message telling them that I have sold
> =A0 | =A0 their email address to a dozen different spammers. =A0When they
> =A0 | =A0 reply asking how I got their address I explain how I got it and
> =A0 | =A0 how they can prevent others from getting it. =A0I then suggest 
> they
> =A0 | =A0 tell their friends to protect their email address by using the
> =A0 | =A0 BCC function. =A0I also tell them I didn't really sell their
> =A0 | =A0 address.
> =A0 |
> =A0 | =A0 Don
> =A0 |
> =A0 |
> =A0 | =A0 Do YOU want a gmail account invitation? =A0Include your email
> =A0 | =A0 address in the body of a private message to dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx
> =A0 |
> =A0 |
> =A0 | =A0 ----- Original Message -----
> =A0 | =A0 From: "Bluebelle" <bluebelle1st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> =A0 | =A0 To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> =A0 | =A0 Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:10 AM
> =A0 | =A0 Subject: -=3DPCTechTalk=3D- Re: when sending emails.
> =A0 |
> =A0 |
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 Your point is good but I send jokes to people who 
> forward
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 my email address because they do not know how to cut 
> and
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 paste or forward without cutting addresses, AOL People 
> seem
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 to have a particular problem with this for some reason. 
> So
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 I have been writing from a throwaway address lately
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 (hotmail rather than my main address, maybe I will go 
> to
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 gmail for this since hotmail is rather slow and balky
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 sometimes).
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 Someone I did NOT know actually answered one of the 
> jokes I
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 had sent to someone on my list. By accident --but that
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 means my address is being sent out to potentially 
> thousands
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 of people. =A0I have requested several times that
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 they not forward my messages but cut and paste but I
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 continue to get hundreds of email addresses forwarded 
> to me
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 so I know they are not cutting them out.
> =A0 | =A0 =A0|
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 Since there are a few people who reply it is not 
> practical
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 to send an address that is completely anonymous.
> =A0 | =A0 =A0|
> =A0 | =A0 =A0| =A0 Bluebelle
> =A0 | =A0 =A0|
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