Note: Don't rely on the email telling you that it has been checked with snopes.com, or truthorfiction.com,
Check it YOURSELF! GOOD Stuff
to remember. SEVEN
TIPS FOR FORWARDING EMAIL--GOOD
ADVICE
Hope you have time to
read this entire message, but if you don't read all of
it, at
least scroll to the bottom and read the 7 tips for forwarding
email. A note from Snopes.com. Also
try
www.truthorfiction.com. Snopes is the service
that validates rumors, etc on the web. (whether they are true or
not) 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. Please forward this
notice to others and 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. Additional information
that will help in forwarding emails: How do you stop it?
Well, there are several easy steps: (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 (3)
Remove any 'FW :' in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish
or even fix spelling. And don't believe the
ones that say that the email is being traced, it just aint
so!) (Could be why I haven't
won the lottery??) Just
go to http://www.snopes.com/.Remember,
if you haven't already heard it on the news, it most likely isn't
true.
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
Florida
who wanted to break
the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards.
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.
(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
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 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 & 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!
(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, or 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.
people who receive it.
(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. 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?
(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. IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!!
(Trust
me, I'm still seeing some of the same ones that I waited on 10 years ago!) I
don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed.
(7)
Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other ones
floating around nowadays, check them out. 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.
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.
Courtesy of Robert Davenport (Brown 1951)