I received this today from a wise woman I know. She is a retired (from U of L) math professor, and a member of a chat group to which I belong. I have been following all these procedures, plus editing out any additional automatic sort of messages at the end of my Forwards, excepting the BCC part. I will begin to use it now... I have had recipients of E-mails I have sent to them to then begin correspondence with other recipients of that mail. Without their permission, I feel that shouldn't happen. I just now FOUND the BCC option under my View heading in my menu bar... takes me a long time to figure things out.... I'm afraid to imagine what all else I do or don't do just out of sheer ignorance.
I may not be the only one, I suspect. (And, I hope I have done it correctly now.) Mike Begin forwarded message: > > FWIW, I've been following most of these rules [and they work], so I'll > be using the others, too. > > If you forward this, please STRIP OFF my email address! > This came from a system administrator for a corporate system. 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? 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 two easy steps: > > (1) when you forward 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, or backspace them, or 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: columns for adding e-mail address. Always use the > BCC:(blind carbon copy) column for listing the e-mail addresses. This > is the way that people you send to 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) When forwarding a message, ALWAYS hit your Forward button from > the actual e-mail you want your recipients to read, 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 him or her from having to open much e-mail just to > see what you sent. > > (5) Have you ever gotten an e-mail 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 e-mail 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 without the many other names. Your position will carry more > weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email > address on a petition. > > So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses > and make your forwards easier for your correspondents to access. > E-mailing will be a whole lot safer convenient and accessible. > > Finally, although I seldom recommend that my correspondents "Forward > this to everyone you know" or "Forward this or bad things will happen" > or Forward this within two days and something great will happen to > you", ... here's an idea!!! Let?s send THIS ADVICE to everyone we know > (but strip my address off first). This is something that SHOULD be > forwarded. > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
