to ALL of us who send E-mails
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2006 11:07 am
Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 9:12 pm
The suggestion has been around before; but certainly worth re-forwarding.
Most of you know this and do this, but I thought it was a good write-up on the hazards of including addresses in forwarded e-mails that you might like to pass this on.
ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send E-mails
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 that got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses. 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 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. That's right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are three easy steps:
1) When you forward an e-mail, click forward then DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message 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. Sometimes you can't highlight all the other addresses at one time, you may have to individually highlight each "Original Message" section then delete.
2) Whenever you send an e-mail don't 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 way the people that 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. Then send it to undisclosed recipients.
3) We all receive e-mails where you must click on the attachment and all we get is another screen to click on another attachment, and so on. Sometimes we go through several screens before we get to the actual message. To eliminate this from happening to the person you forward your e-mail to, once you come to the screen where the actual message is, "forward from that screen". DO NOT go back to the original e-mail to forward. What this does is eliminate all the in between screens you had to open to get to the message.
So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses! Best way to beat a virus is quit feeding it email addresses! Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know. This is something that SHOULD be forwarded.
The suggestion has been around before; but certainly worth re-forwarding.
Most of you know this and do this, but I thought it was a good write-up on the hazards of including addresses in forwarded e-mails that you might like to pass this on.
ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send E-mails
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 that got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses. 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 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. That's right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are three easy steps:
1) When you forward an e-mail, click forward then DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message 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. Sometimes you can't highlight all the other addresses at one time, you may have to individually highlight each "Original Message" section then delete.
2) Whenever you send an e-mail don't 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 way the people that 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. Then send it to undisclosed recipients.
3) We all receive e-mails where you must click on the attachment and all we get is another screen to click on another attachment, and so on. Sometimes we go through several screens before we get to the actual message. To eliminate this from happening to the person you forward your e-mail to, once you come to the screen where the actual message is, "forward from that screen". DO NOT go back to the original e-mail to forward. What this does is eliminate all the in between screens you had to open to get to the message.
So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses! Best way to beat a virus is quit feeding it email addresses! Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know. This is something that SHOULD be forwarded.