Check this out for some
great lessons on e-mail, viruses, etc.................
Words To Live By.
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 nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are
several easy steps:
FOLLOW 1 AND 2 BELOW PLEASE. MY SPAM IS GETTING SO HEAVY I AM GOING
TO HAVE TO CHANGE MY E-MAIL ADDRESS AGAIN. YOU LEAVE ALL OUR ADDRESSES
FOR THE WORLD TO SEE FOR SPAM AND VIRUSES.
(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: after you have clicked 'forward'....click
on the view on the top toolbar - then "all headers" The
BCC: will appear for you. 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 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 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? And don't believe the ones that say
that the email is being traced, it just ain't so!)
Some of the other emails I hate include:
1. The one that says 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 AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (Trust me, I'm still
seeing some of the same emails that I waited on 10 years ago!)
2. I don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed.
(This could be why I haven't won the lottery......)
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 a 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.
So please, in the future, let's help stop the junk mail and the
viruses.
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