How to Forward E-Mail Appropriately 

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
email 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:
(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.  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 hit the forward button first you won't  have full editing
functions. I particularly dislike having to scroll through 200 Email addresses
before I get to the email message.

(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.. 
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.
This one is very important  -  please read and heed

(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 virus 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 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!)
(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 AIN'T 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 this 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.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 http://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 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.


"A smile is the light in your window that tells others
 that there is a caring, sharing person
 inside."














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