FACTS ABOUT
FORWARDED EMAILS AND
HOW TO FORWARD EMAIL APPROPRIATELY
This is some of the best
advise I have ever received via email and
several of my personal pet peeves are
addressed.
Please take a minute to read and
maybe we can help change the way virus's are spread, emails are forwarded and
the best yet is that we could help stop spammers!!!
A note from Snopes.com
Snopes is the service that validate rumors etc on the web.
Whether they are true
or not.
Good info From Snopes.com
If you are going to pass
something along . . let it be
THIS!
To whom it all concerns:
Just a word to the
wise. E-mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or
any other municipality.
To be acceptable, petitions must
have a signed signature and full address.
Same with "prayer
chains" -- be wary!
Almost all e-mails that ask you
to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years
ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in
All it was, and all this type of
e-mail is, is to get names and "cookie" tracking info for
telemarketers and spammers to validate active e-mail accounts for their own
purposes.
Any time you see an e-mail that says forward this on to "10" of
your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get good luck, or what ever, it has
either an e-mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and e-mails
of those folks you forward to, the host sender is getting a copy.
Each time it gets forwarded, then it's able to
get lists of "active" e-mails to use in Spam e-mails, or sell to
others that do.
When the email says: “Please
forward this notice to others” and you don’t,
you will be providing a
good service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting 30,000 spam e-mails in the future.
(If you have been sending out the
above kinds of email, now you know why you get so much spam!)
Check it out:http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm
This is additional information that
will help in forwarding emails:
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IMPORTANT!! HOW TO FORWARD EMAIL APPROPRIATELY A friend who is a computer expert
received the following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system.
It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY 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 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 & 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: (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 MUST click
the "Forward" button first and then you will have full
editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. (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 addresses contained therein. 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. (Actually, if you think about it, who's supposed to send the
petition in to whatever cause it supports? And don’t believe the ones that
say that the email is being traced, it just ain’t so!) (6) One of the main ones I hate is the
ones that say that 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.
Remember, if you haven't already
heard it on the news, it most likely isn’t true. 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 This is
something that SHOULD be forwarded. |