My friend pavan send me a very good email about the email forwarding that email message I am sharing with all my blog readers . It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails.
“Do you really know how to forward e-mails? Most of us DO NOT know how.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:
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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.
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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.
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Remove any ‘FW:’ in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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 on the internet.
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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.
Do NOT delete the previous sender’s detail.. just make it more consise.. strip the footers and redundant header spacing BUT it’s very useful to see the path the mail has followed and original source.
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>>> fron Jane Doe
>>> from Joe Bloggs
>>> from Jim Carey
Re: interesting title
Interesting content
Do NOT delete the previous sender’s detail.. just make it more consise.. strip the footers and redundant header spacing BUT it’s very useful to see the path the mail has followed and original source.
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>>> fron Jane Doe
>>> from Joe Bloggs
>>> from Jim Carey
To check for hoaxes and scams in Amber alerts or requests for acts of kindness, check http://snopes.com/ (or http://www.scambusters.org/, or just do a Google search for a characteristic sentence in the message).
Hi,
AJay Nice informative post.. I hope you continue your effort to providing such type of infromation…
Regards,
Harshvardhan
…Do NOT delete the previous sender’s detail.. just make it more consise.. strip the footers and redundant header spacing BUT it’s very useful to see the path the mail has followed and original source….
The person who wrote the above knows little or nothing about internet and email security. They really need to learn something about it before spreading any more bad information.
Of course it’s useful — to spammers. If you’re not a spammer, there’s no good reason for wanting all those addresses.
As the writer pointed out, if there is one person down the line who is using a vulnerable email program (like Outlook or Outlook Express), and that person gets a Trojan, it can forward itself to every email address on that computer — including yours. That’s the major way such things are spread.
Or are you a spammer? Hmmmmmmm?
Must-reads here:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/
I like the BCC suggestion with one exception. Sometimes I need to send a message where I want everyone to see the responses (mostly at work), so I tell folks to please reply to all. If you use BCC you cannot reply to all.
Also, when using bcc, I place my own email address in the to box, so it appears to be to me from me.
My first visit. Interesting tips, enjoyed, look forward to future visits. Keep it up guys. Your tips are well taken.
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Great info, check out http://www.dreaddit.com. It’s a site I just found where you can dislike things. Pretty cool.