[Jobs] Good ideas for emails.

[Fred Olver]

GOOD INFORMATION FOR PC USERS

Good advice all the way down to the bottom - I learned some things 
myself....hope you find it helpful too.  We just can't be too careful these 
days.

you will cut down on your junk mail tremendously!!

      How to forward Email, and make it your own, and why.
    This is advice from a Network Administrator responsible for all of the 
computers at a very large corporation.

        It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who 
send emails.  Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you 
already
follow proper procedures.

Do you really know how to forward emails?  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 email there is information left over from the people who got
the message before you, namely their email addresses and 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.

Try the following if you haven't done it before:

(1)   When you forward an email, 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 email to more than one person, do NOT use the To: 
or Cc: fields for adding email addresses. I would prefer it if the other 
people
in your address book don't see my personal info. and besides, it is no one 
else's business who else you're sending email to.  It also leaves your name
and email address vulnerable to spammers. So please, if you're forwarding 
something to more people than me, please be courteous and use the BCC and 
keep
my name and email address anonymous!    Always use the BCC:(blind carbon 
copy) field for listing ALL the email addresses.  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.

(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 email you are reading . 
Ever get those emails 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 emails just to see what you
sent. Also, while you're in 'forward' mode and deleting previous names and 
addresses, scroll to the end of the message and delete all the ads and anti
virus information. Its frustrating to read a joke, then have to scroll down 
past pages and pages of this stuff to see if there is any more of the 
message.
So, when you forward, delete the junk before AND after the intended message.

(5)   Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition?   It states a 
position and asks you to add your name 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. DO NOT put your
email address on any petition. 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 
addresses on a petition. (And don't believe the ones that say that the email 
is
being traced; it just ain't so!)
ACTUAL FACT: Most e-mail petitions are worthless because they do not fully 
identify the signer by street address, etc. nor does it prove that the 
signer
really signed it. It could be just one person writing all those names on the 
list...Don't forward them.

Some of the other emails to delete and not forward are:

a. The one that says 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 AIN'T GONNA 
HAPPEN!!!!! I repeat.... IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (No matter how many you 
send it
to or how long you wait.... IT AIN'T GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!! We are still 
seeing some of the same emails that we waited on 10 years ago!)

b. I don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they should get trashed as 
should the ones that try to guilt you into thinking that if you don't 
forward
certain emails that you are ashamed of Christ and He will therefore be 
ashamed of you! Come on..... if you choose to delete and not spread the 
spam, there
is no way that Christ will be ashamed of you, and forwarding it doesn't 
automatically get you into heaven!

c. Before you forward an 'Amber Alert' , or a 'Virus Alert' , or some of the 
other emails 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
www.snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/
www.snopes.com.
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.
Also get rid of the advertisements at the bottom of your emails! You pay for 
your internet why advertise free for them? If they want advertisement let
them pay you to use your space!!!!


Finally, here's an idea!!!  Let's send this to everyone we know ( but strip 
my address off first, please).  This is something that SHOULD be forwarded,
so do it.
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