How To Forward E-Mails Correctly
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 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 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: 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.
(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.
(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 AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!!
(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
Its really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not,
please don't pass it on.
