Let's stop junk mail and viruses

Subject: Let's stop junk mail and viruses Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:10 pm

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 (mainly 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 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, to all
the people you
sent a message.

(3) Remove any 'FW :' in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even spelling.

(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail
you are reading. Ever get those emails that youhave to open 10 pages to
read the one page with the information on it? By forwarding from the
actual (USUALLY THE LAST) 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.

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 aint so!)

(6) The main ones I hate are 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 ISN'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
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 e-mail
that is in question can be checked out at Snopes.

Just go to
http://www.snopes.com/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.

One last word...

Delete all of the ads, junk, and links at the bottom of the e-mails too.

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