E-mail, chat, & VoIP : Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail?
- 11/2/07 12:50 PM
I answered other and thought I would explain
by Achinn - 11/2/07 5:18 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I answered other and thought I would explain what I do: If it is one of those mails that has "been around the world 100 times", I reply to the sender that I have seen this before and won't be forwarding it (this presumes that I know the sender. If the sender is NOT known, I delete it without opening it). If it is a NEW e-mail, I use SNOPES to verify that the e-mail is not false. If it's false, I notify the sender that it is bogus and I will not be forwarding it on. If it is TRUE and not ancient (in this day and age "ancient" is 1 month 
), I decide if it is worth forwarding and act accordingly. Bottom line, it may be delete without reading, read and delete, read reply to sender and delete, or read and forward as appropriate.
Andrew "dajerkymon" Chinn
my reaction to chain mail
by bhakta_dasa - 11/2/07 5:30 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
99% of the time I delete it without reading. If it is from my mother, I will look at it and delete it.
I..
by Aria-chan - 11/2/07 5:41 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I read it and see if it's worth anything. From there I might pass it on if it's really good, or delete it.
Email chain letters
by 4sheila - 11/2/07 5:58 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I usually delete frivolous email chains, unless they offer prayers, christian encouragement, or in the nature of such. I read then pass them on to those that I know that will welcome them.
In my opinion, I find those (religious chains)to be very inspirational as well as a blessing and certainly not annoying.
Junk. chains and spam
by TreknologyNet - 11/2/07 6:35 PM In reply to: Email chain letters by 4sheilaIf I get one of those chain letters that lists all the good luck and bad luck of people who followed or broke the chain, I think "How the hell do they really know this @#$%?" and promptly delete it.
If I get a feel good or entertaining joke, I'll strip it of extraneous information and share it with other whom I feel may appreciate it.
If I receive one of those "I am widow (dying of cancer) of a multimillionaire and seek your assistance in 'charitably' distributing the money..." I immediately forward it to abuse@domain of origin.
If it's one of those "send this to 20 people and then press such and such button to see a surprise", I delete them because even if the "surprise" would work, it won't work on my computer because I have the security set to high. Promptly deleted.
As for those that promise tracking of emails for money, I usually flood all recipients contained within the version of "Nokia/Microsoft/whomever are tracing this email and will give away..." with:
"Yeah, right. Nokia are going to give away 2 million mobile phones? Get real! All this is meant to do is flood Nokia with the cc's to clog up their servers."
And for the ones that claim tracking WITHOUT sending a cc to the "source" I point out that such tracking, whilst possible, is illegal.
Life is too short!
by R.M.41 - 11/2/07 6:33 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Those who send chain letters seem to need a life. They must keep in contact no matter what they send. Let's keep these useless emails and
urban legends in prospective by deleting or asking senders to remove us from their address books.
R.M.
Other
by Arguilios - 11/2/07 6:45 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My fam-spam falls into one of three categories: love-me-tender poems and anecdotes sewn with well-intentioned hope to bless the ties that bind (everyone in the contact list); garden-variety stories to shock the conscience; and political propaganda.
Regarding blessings and well wishes, I respond to remind the writer of our personal relationship. I suspect real blessings are little influenced by Hallmark-rejected homilies, and the ties that bind are nurtured by considerate contact – not Pollyanna’s endlessly forwarded feelings with moving kitty and rainbow GIF attachments.
Shock-and-awe stories (little girls fallen in a well, waiting for affectionate cards and letters to cherish in lieu of an actual liver transplant) I usually Google to show the sender that 3-15 years is long enough for any story to circulate. /See Snopes.com/
As for political Spam, well… Some stuff, probably a lot, is just beneath the dignity of a response – or acknowledgement.
Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your
by meltol - 11/2/07 6:46 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
First, I verify with Google search or visit to snopes.com whether it's real or bogus. If bogus, I let the sender know and trash it. If not obviously bogus and if cute, I might send to a couple of friends...
What to do
by KathyPostell - 11/2/07 6:54 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
When I receive chain mail.
1. I may recoginze the title and decide not to read it for the 48th time and delete it without reading.
2. I may read it and decide that it's stupid and delete it.
3. I may read it and decide that there is some good information in it, or something that might be desire by my email pals. If so, I send it only to those that might be interested, and in all cases I remove all previous send to and forwarded address and any hint of "If you don't send this on......"
4. If it includes a joke, and if I don't jiggle it dies a quick death in my trash.
Chain e-mails
by vasmith1 - 11/2/07 6:57 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
95% of the time I read them and then delete. Sometimes, depending on the material, I may forward the e-mail but only to a few select people never to my whole address book.
V
I read it, delete and write to the sende
by Jezemeg8 - 11/2/07 6:57 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Usually my friends send me this type of email as a gesture of friendship, some of the messages contained within them are positive. The parts I disagree with are when it degenerates into a promise of good fortune if the mail is forwarded, seems to measure the value of your friendship by how many people you forward it to, or worst of all, attempts to tell you the depth of your Christian faith as to whether you forward these emails or not...if you don't forward then you don't really believe in God.
I generally read emails such as this and then delete them and if it is the first time this person has sent it to me (remembering that it is possible to get several copies of a single email)I write to the person concerned explaining that I do not forward that particular type of email because I do not believe that good fortune, friendship and even faith is depicted by the mere forwarding of an email.
As I said most do have a positive message and if it is possible, I delete the sections that make claims to good fortune, friendship, faith or any demands of sending it back to me and onto several others. I will then forward the positive bits if I feel someone's spirit will be boosted, or receive some other message. If this can't be done (and sometimes the undesirable theme is actually an integral part of the email) then it is deleted.
Chain letters
by Alain Martel1 - 11/2/07 7:40 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Most of the time, I don't read it.
I do reply to the sender to ask him/her to stop spaming me by forwarding that e-mail polution. Some times, I explain to him that those chain letters are uterly foolish, a waste of time and an internet hog.
If it's a virus warning, I instruct the sender, and all other recepients that it's a scam and to check the veracity of any warning BEFORE they propagate it.
I particularly hate those chain e-mails that still contain the addresses of every recipients for the last 50+ steps, with added "smart" words and "cute" little images, making a 3 lines message weight at around 8 Mb!
Chain letters
by TN-T3 - 11/2/07 7:55 PM In reply to: Chain letters by Alain Martel1Depends upon who sent it. If it's friends, associates, family, etc. I'll read it, but a lot of times people get *REAL TIRED* of chain letters and a lot of them can carry viruses.
If I do forward it, I'll erase all the other people that send it, and it through BCC, so if some person gets addresses for mail lists, I don't make it too easy.
But like I say, MOST OF THEM ARE IRRITATING, to them as well as me, and just delete them. Yes, you only have 3 days before something bad will happen. I haven't had anything bad or good happen depending upon chain letters. They were just as irritating as back in school, when people used to write them, and you had to write another 15 letters, but that was 30 years ago.
What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mai
by Navy Master Chief - 11/2/07 9:43 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Delete it if it's from strangers.
Send this link if it's from friends or family:
http://info.org.il/irrelevant/may02-smilepop-soapbox4.swf
TO NAVY MASTER CHIEF
by Achinn - 11/3/07 5:59 AM In reply to: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mai by Navy Master ChiefI LOVE that Flash. I have saved it and will use it often.
PN1(ret)
| Forum legend: | |
 |
Locked thread |
 |
Moderator |
 |
CNET staff |
 |
Samsung staff |
 |
Norton Authorized Support team |
 |
AVG staff |
 |
Windows Outreach team |
 |
Dell staff |
 |
Intel staff |
