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[Whizkid]

Excellent Info on Sending E-mail

This came direct from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that 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 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 two 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.

High light 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: columns for adding e-mail address. Always use the BCC:(blind carbon copy) column for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way that people 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. 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.

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. Also, when email petitions are signed and passed on to multiple recipients, they become invalid because there is multiple duplication of the names eventually.

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). This is something that SHOULD be forwarded.

Someone added that they hate receiving emails in huge FONTS! They take forever to read! This was a 24, but they changed it to 10 so it can be read and/or printed more easily/quickly.

Many of you who send me emails do follow these suggestions, but I am passing it along to you, also, so that you too can forward it and spread the word.

[Stans]

Only problem with the blind CC is that when you receive something like a joke, you have no idea who else has also received the joke. So a person could end up getting the same e-mail dozens of times, perhaps filling their e-mail box and preventing other messages from being delivered. For this reason, I will not blind CC my e-mails.

[Red]

Same here Stans i send emails to only the people i want to send to , most of the emails i get(present company excluded) are deleted before they get to my mail box by use of mail washer , and i always delete the previous addresses before forwarding anything

[mane_raptor]

I delete all emails before opening them............it's a lot safer that way.

[Whizkid]

I delete all emails before opening them............it's a lot safer that way.

Always wondered about you,Mane! Now I know for sure!

[Stans]

I delete all emails before opening them............it's a lot safer that way.

[Cyclone]

Mane's right - its a whole lot safer.

I keep 2 ids, one's for everyone I know, the others for everyone I know and like ie close friends ie non spammers. So I open the first one about once a month, only to delete everything, while the second one is the one I usually operate from.