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Forwarding Email Politely This is one of my pet peeves. Those forwarded emails with list after list of everybody else who has passed the email along. All those address book names, free for the spammer plucking. I know you want to share with your friends. But ask yourself this - do I have the right to spread their email addy around to everybody else I know? And in sequence, to everybody they know? The answer is no! The way to avoid this is to send these emails as BLIND CARBON COPIES or BCC. Send or forward the mail to yourself and add your address book as BCC. This way the only email addy recipients see is yours and theirs. BLIND means all those other recipients are not visible. Don't tell me your email doesn't have it. It does, you just haven't found it yet or didn't know what it meant. It's there for just this purpose. Spreading these email addresses around encourages spam and BCC is a way to avoid that. And while I'm on a roll.. Here's another pet peeve of mine. >>>>>So a guy is >>>>>walking down the street >>>>>when he sees a donkey >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Scroll on down this is good >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Sucks the joy right out of the joke. All those brackets. And what do people do? Forward the puppy so as to add another group of brackets. What's with that? Clean it up. You'll look so slick to your friends. This may depend on your email program. But here's a suggestion that will make you look so smart... Let's copy the whole email. Place your cursor to the left of the first word in the body (text) area, press the left mouse button and drag it across the full email. This "selects" all of the text. Release your finger on the mouse button. All the text should be highlighted. Okay, without yet pressing the mouse, put your cursor in the middle of all that highlighted text. Press the right mouse button and choose COPY. Start (compose) a NEW message. From you, To you. Place your cursor in the text area of your new message and press the right mouse button. Pick PASTE. You should see the original email text. Now get busy and delete all those damn >>>>> signs. TIP: Delete removes characters to the right of your cursor. Backspace removes them to the left. Get rid of all those email addy lists from previous forwards. You can either delete them a character at a time or you can "select" them as we did above, and delete them all at once. Remember this: Chances are excellent that your email will not allow you to do this in the original email in your "IN" box.. They won't permit alteration of an original. This is why we composed a new email. When ready, add your address book as a BCC and send it. Your friends are gonna be so impressed. And it's the right thing to do. |
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