Guest guest Posted March 20, 2007 Report Share Posted March 20, 2007 > Words To Live By From a system administrator for a corporate system. It > is > an excellent message thatABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails. > Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you already follow > proper procedures. > Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT. > Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every > time > you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who > got > the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses and names. As the > messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, > and > builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or > her > computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that has come across > his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them > or > send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he > will > make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience > over > a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps. > Try the following if you haven't done it before: > (1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that > appear in the body of the message (at the top). That's right, DELETE > them. > Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is > you > know how to do. It only takes a second. You MUSTclick the " Forward " > button > first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body > and > headers of the message. If you don't click on " Forward " first, you won't > be > able to edit the message at all. > (2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the > To: > or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC:(blind > carbon > copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people > you send to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see your > BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. > Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's that easy. When > you send to BCC: your message will automatically say " Undisclosed > Recipients > in the " TO: " field of the people who receive it. > (3) Remove any " FW : " in the subject line. You can re-name the subject > if > you wish or even fix spelling. > (4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are > reading. > Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page > with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish > someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to > see > what you sent. > > (5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a > position > and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 > people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on > and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The > completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional > spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addressescontained > therein. DO NOT put your email address on any petition. If you want to > support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended > recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than > a > laundry list of names and email address on a petition. (And don't believe > the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just ain't so!) > New Roman " >Some of the other emails to delete and not forward are: > 1. The one that says something like, " Send this email to 10 people and > you'll see something great run across your screen. " Or sometimes they'll > just tease you by saying 'something really cute will happen.' IT AIN'T > GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (We are still seeing some of the same emails that we > waited on 10 years ago!) 2. I don't let the bad luck ones scare me > either, > they get trashed. > 3. Before you forward an New 'Amber Alert', or a 'Virus Alert' or some of > the other emails floating around nowadays, check them out before you > forward > them. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for YEARS! > Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be > checked out at Snopes. Just go towww.snopes.com. It's really easy to > find > out if it's real or not.If it's not, please don't pass it on. > So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses. > Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know (but strip > my address off first, please). This is something that SHOULD be > forwarded, > so do it if you have a minute. > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.13/725 - Release Date: 3/17/2007 > 12:33 PM > > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.13/725 - Release Date: 3/17/2007 12:33 PM Wunder gwunder@...<P><HR></P>No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.413 / Virus Database: 268.18.13/725 - Release Date: 3/17/2007 Don't worry about the materialistic things, most big gifts come in small packages. It is better to give than to receive. Dave Hutchins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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