Email Addressing---Excellent Information For You To Use

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Larry Harp

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I recieved this e-mail from a friend, I thought it was good enough to pass along to all of you.



Harpo




This came to me direct from a system administrator of very large corporate system. It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails.





Please read the text below....



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. 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 firstand then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of he messageIf 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 theTo: 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 adress 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.







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 listname and email address on a petition.





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.

 
I have always deleted that info because I don't want anyone to know who it came from originally anyway...including mine;)
 
Good info Harpo,



I do NOT open attachments, period. I do not read or open forwarded mail. I have made a lot of people angry because of this too..



Uncle Billy
 
Bill, I understand not opening attachments, eventhough I do if I know the sender, however I don't understand why you wouldn't open forwarded mail. What's up with that?



Harpo
 
I admit it, I am a stripper and I have been stripping for years and will never stop. :p



I strip all email addresses out of an email before sending it off and I even take the time to remove all of the <<<< I can't stand a messy email, must be my OCD kicking in. :D



Emails that bug me are emails about warnings, viruses, free money, etc. I always go to snoops or urban legends and verify the warning before I even think about sending it to someone else. When I find that it was a hoax of which 99.9% are I send it back to everyone that was on the list with a link to the facts. Most of my friends know not to send that crap to me because they end up getting back.



That was a nice email, I think I will send it to all of the people on my email list. :lol:



Cass
 
I used to do the same Cass, but I have recovered....lol



Its just the "new" people that get warned now....



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