[Woodcarver] (CHAT) Great aadvise

[Jan Oegema]

Subject: Very good e-mail
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:15:08 -0400


   HOW TO FORWARD E-MAILS/ VERY GOOD ADVICE

  Many of you do this all the time, some never. It's good advice and
  should help clean up and shorten many emails. keep it going.


  This came to me direct 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
  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? 
  (YES!)
   
   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 
  two 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!

  High light them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is
  you know how to do. It only takes a second. But... You MUST click 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: columns for adding e-mail address. Always use the 
  BCC:(blind  carbon copy) column for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way  that
  people you send to 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 ! your
  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.
  One more thing...
  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.

  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). This is something that SHOULD be forwarded.



                                   Woodbutcher Jan
 

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