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Some Tips
About Forwarding Email
Windows All Versions
The
following tip was sent in through the
Cloudeight weekly newsletter.
Do you
really know how to forward e-mails?
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. 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 in Outlook Express/Windows Mail, click View in the
compose window toolbar and check "All Headers". In other email
programs try clicking on where it says To: and your address list will
appear - then highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's
that easy. When you send to BCC: (and with no address in the
"To:" field) 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 e-mail 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 e-mail can be forwarded on and on and can collect
thousands of names and e-mail 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 e-mail 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 e-mail address on a petition. (actually, if you
think about it, who is supposed to send the petition in to whatever cause
it supports? And don't believe the ones that say that the e-mail is being
traced, it just ain't so!)
Just about
everything you receive in an e-mail that is in question can be checked out
on Snopes.com. Just go to www.snopes.com or www.truthorfiction.com It's really easy to find out if it's real
or not. If it's not, please don't pass it on.
Just to bring you up to date, as per my last
newsletter. The extra box in which
you must add the numbers and letters listed before you can submit a Decklog
entry seems to be working. I have
not received any sp**am since starting this procedure.
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