jean mitton on wed 20 apr 11
Hello clayart guys this is Jean mitton from South Africa.. the sister of th=
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late Ron Mitton.. the potter.. thought this might interest you;; Lots LOVE
from SA
From: Michelle Horn [mailto:ozzielle63@yahoo.com.au]
Sent: 20 April 2011 08:00 AM
To: Michelle Horn
Subject: How to forward Email Properly - very useful information
This is good info, a must-read and a good article to forward.
HOW TO FORWARD E-MAIL PROPERLY
A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a
system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message tha=
t
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? Most of us DO NOT know how.
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 wil=
l
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 you know
how to to. It only takes a second. You MUST click the 'Forward' button firs=
t
and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and
headers of the message. If you don't hit the forward button first you won't
have full editing functions. I particularly dislike having to scroll throug=
h
200 Email addresses before I get to the email.
(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 carbo=
n
copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people yo=
u
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 r eceive it.
That way you aren't sharing all those addresses with every Tom, Dick or
Harry.
(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. These are the ones that often end up having picked up a viru=
s
from somebody. This is really important.
(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 an=
d
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 add
resses 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 bel ieve the
ones that say that the email is being traced, it just aint so!)
(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 you=
r
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. (Could be why I haven't won the
lottery??)
(7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the
other ones floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward
them.< /SPAN> 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 ca=
n
be checked out at Snopes. Just go to
http://www.snopes. com/
Its 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.
Finally, here's an idea!!! Let's send this to everyone we know (but strip m=
y
address off first, please). This is something that SHOULD be forwarded.
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