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Posted by Pam T on 2/27/2008, 7:45 am
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Good morning everyone. I got this email a little while ago from a friend of mine and I thought I would post it here. It is good info and I know that if you are like me, you want to protect you personal information including your email address from spamers etc. It is really inportant to read the steps of how to forward emails without leaving all the previous addresses attached. I know less then nothing about computers, but even I can understand this so please take a moment to read it before you forward another inspiring or humorous email to your friends or family.
Pam
"For the past month I have been going to sit down and write this out and send it on to my friends. I get so many spam emails, yes I have a filter, but this message is why I get them and I have been cut down on the emails that I send out and I have been considering blocking a lot of the emails that I get. It is either that or change my address and don’t give it out to any one. The email is a great tool to keep in touch with people but many are abusing it and I just don’t have the time to go through them, so much of the time I just delete them. I hope everyone can understand and we can all be a part in helping each other clean up our computers of junk email. I love you all. Thanks"
Subject: Good information --Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:13:57 -0500
Read right down to the last one, as it makes sense !
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 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 nickle. 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 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 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. (Mine will give your name but not the other recipents). g
(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 F ACT: 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. DO NOT put your email address of 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!)
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 all 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. Don't let the bad luck ones scare you either, delete them, they are trash.
3. Before you forward an '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 to www.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
4. Before sending the email skip down to the bottom and remove ALL the build up of "Virus Protection Messages" that get tacked on each time an email gets forwarded.
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.
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