-=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.

  • From: "Bluebelle" <bluebelle1st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 18:55:23 -0500

Maybe--if I tell some of them I am changing my address and return those 
messages for awhile I could get them to change it--LOL




----- Original Message ----- 
From: " milady" <kg6ocz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 12:56 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.


> IF they WILL take you off their list..giggle. That takes work too. And I
> can't tell my stepmother to take me off her list. ARGHHHH.  She CAN't
> learn..so she says.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bluebelle" <bluebelle1st@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:04 AM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.
>
>
> Has that worked?
> I have sent replies to the offenders showing all the addresses inside the
> forwards they sent and THAT did NOT work.
>
> If anyone has info on how AOL users can work around the forwards, could 
> they
> give us a tutorial so we can forward it on to those AOL users who do
> forwards all the time??
> I really should just stop sending to those who use AOL and tell them to 
> take
> me off their list.
> I keep thinking there must be a way to get it fixed.
>
> Bluebelle
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 11:10 AM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: when sending emails.
>
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> Do YOU want a gmail account invitation?  Include your email address in 
>> the
>> body of a private message to dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- 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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