Stop it!!!
I love my cousin - I really do - but does anyone out there know how annoying chain emails are? I just got one from Sandra with this opening:
"A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Read this... It could save your life!! "
It's a chain email talking about how to survive a heart attack. Good message, right. Small problem - it's a chain-fucking-email!!! Do people realize why these things are unleashed upon the internet? Spammers send them out to collect active email addresses.
Let me say that again to make sure the point is understood - SPAMMERS USE CHAIN EMAIL SCHEMES TO COLLECT EMAIL ADDRESSES!
How many people properly forward emails - you know, by stripping out previous email addresses and all that? Virtually nobody. How often have you gotten an email from your mom or estranged aunt that had about 200 email addresses scattered throughout it because it's been forwarded about eight times already and nobody has stripped that info out?
Stop it!
If you get a chain mail, don't forward it. Just don't. Really, nobody likes them.
IF you absolutely must forward it because of some uncontrollable urge to pass along some (often lame) message, do everyone two simple courtesies and 1) strip out all old email headers. Just forward the message. That's it. Just the message. Nothing else. Also, 2) send the email to yourself and blind carbon copy (it's that "BCC:" header) it to everyone you want to email it to. BCCs send the email without showing the address (the "blind" part of it...). That way, email addresses won't be scattered throughout the internet to eventually fall into the hands of spammers. The more we can limit spammers ability to clog the internet, the better.
Send this message to ten of your friends and family who regularly forward emails willy-nilly.
It'll save baby seals.
And prevent cancer.
And help us find intelligent life on Mars.
And make the internet better for everyone involved except spammers and they can fuck themselves for all I care...
"A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Read this... It could save your life!! "
It's a chain email talking about how to survive a heart attack. Good message, right. Small problem - it's a chain-fucking-email!!! Do people realize why these things are unleashed upon the internet? Spammers send them out to collect active email addresses.
Let me say that again to make sure the point is understood - SPAMMERS USE CHAIN EMAIL SCHEMES TO COLLECT EMAIL ADDRESSES!
How many people properly forward emails - you know, by stripping out previous email addresses and all that? Virtually nobody. How often have you gotten an email from your mom or estranged aunt that had about 200 email addresses scattered throughout it because it's been forwarded about eight times already and nobody has stripped that info out?
Stop it!
If you get a chain mail, don't forward it. Just don't. Really, nobody likes them.
IF you absolutely must forward it because of some uncontrollable urge to pass along some (often lame) message, do everyone two simple courtesies and 1) strip out all old email headers. Just forward the message. That's it. Just the message. Nothing else. Also, 2) send the email to yourself and blind carbon copy (it's that "BCC:" header) it to everyone you want to email it to. BCCs send the email without showing the address (the "blind" part of it...). That way, email addresses won't be scattered throughout the internet to eventually fall into the hands of spammers. The more we can limit spammers ability to clog the internet, the better.
Send this message to ten of your friends and family who regularly forward emails willy-nilly.
It'll save baby seals.
And prevent cancer.
And help us find intelligent life on Mars.
And make the internet better for everyone involved except spammers and they can fuck themselves for all I care...