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- 11/2/07 12:50 PM
What I do when I receive a chain letter.
by lake Minnetonka Mark - 11/2/07 9:50 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
First of all it depends on the content. Some are so lame they are not worthy of anything but a delete. If it’s interesting, I check out the validity with sites like www.snopes.com .
Then if it checks out, I will forward to my group list, but before I do, I take out all headers and footers, all previous addressees, and basically clean up the email so it looks good. (I always send my group emails using BCC so that it:
1. Does not clutter up the body of the email.
2. Keeps my contacts from being identified.
3. I think it’s very polite to clean up the emails so they are easier to read and to keep folks anonymous.
Most importantly, I delete the crapola about how you are going to “feel better”, “win a prize”, “something special will show up on your computer because you are going to forward to several friends”, “some company is going to pay you to forward” and any other phony baloney that weirdoes put into chain letters. (I’ve never been able to figure out what possesses people to do that!) And more importantly, does anyone believe that stuff?? And if there are, what planet are they from??
A chain letter in my email.
by DrasticGraphicsLLC - 11/2/07 10:45 PM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Nothing comes to my inbox that isn't from someone I know, so I'm good there. Of all the email addresses I have, only 2 or 3 people consistently send forwards. I rarely send forwards, but when I do find an email worthy of being forwarded, I will do so discreetly. I take out all contact information in the email, un-attach unnecessary attachments, clean the email up (deleting the extra lines/characters, making it look like its the first time the email is being sent), and put everyone I want the email to go to in the bcc field. I put myself in the "to" field.
What u do when u receive a chain letter
by ashok Mallik - 11/3/07 12:53 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I send a reply 2 the sender and deleat without reading it,I deleat it without reading it.
I usually just scan
by britgirl318 - 11/3/07 1:12 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I scan overt the thing and then delete.
Just like any other chain letter, I have no regard for them.
this is how i do it
by nowvyger - 11/3/07 4:01 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I modify the message body by taking out anyone else's email address and I ask that this not be sent back to me. It's only the good vibs I want to send along with the email. Then I BCC everyone that I want to send it to and send it along it's way
spam e-mail chain letters
by graememacfothaidh - 11/3/07 4:37 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Obviously by the Poll taken of those who bother to reply, most read them before discarding them. I bin all unwanted and unread post that comes via Royal Mail and treat unwanted e-mail similarly. They are usually easily identified as having a strange sender's name and address or start off with American slang, so in the bin they go. Graeme.
Stupid, mindless garbage
by stupot1710 - 11/3/07 4:38 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am thoroughly fed up with these totally pointless chain letters that say things like, "if you don't send this letter on to at least ten people, you will have bad luck". As if sending an email is going to change your life! There's always some **** saying something like, "I sent this letter to all my friends, and two days later I won the lottery"! I feel really sorry for those poor sods who send on these letters expecting something good to happen! I have a friend who keeps sending them to me, only because she is a good friend, I send them back to her to keep her happy. Otherwise they all get binned.
Depends
by usws - 11/3/07 4:43 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If it's something i find interesting or useful such as advice on medical treatments or funny videos, then I'd forward it to the few people i know who would be all too happy to receive these kinds of email.
On the hand, those that go like "If you read this and do not send this to 374328427 people, you will die and burn in eternal hell", *delete* even before i finish reading it.
BYE!
Don't get many now
by Irelands child - 11/3/07 5:04 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I retired so that thankfully took me off of a lot of email lists so don't get so many now.
If I KNOW it's a chain letter - instant delete.
If it's an interesting platitude, but don't know it's a chain, will read thru it and might even forward WITHOUT the little ditty that says that instant misfortune will befall me if it isn't passed on.
Generally, they all end up in the trash/electronic heaven!!!
Depends on the email.
by Jorjamom - 11/3/07 5:07 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am a homeschool teacher and a Sunday School teacher. The top pet peeve on my list is inaccurate rants in email ( ie; removing "in God we trust" from new coins ) from other church leaders. I think that people who place themselves in moral, spiritual and ethical leadership roles, need to be more careful. I try to make sure that any email I send is true and accurate. I do the research.
When I get an email that has been forwarded that proves to be inaccurate, I do not hesitate to reply. I let everyone know that has forwarded the email that we as spiritual leaders need to be more careful. We should hold ourselves to a higher standard and do some research before forwarding an email that may be inaccurate. If we don't, we are liars, plain and simple. This is a standard I teach my children. If I find out they are forwarding emails that are not accurate without having researched the content, they are lying to people and they will have consequences for that action. I hope this rule helps my children to be more responsible about what email they choose to read and forward. I would pay money for a Netiquette class for my children. They needs to learn the rules of email, chat, MySpace, etc. before they can be turned loose on one our computers.
Chain Letters
by neglecterus - 11/3/07 6:28 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
As a rule, I skim the message and send a reply to the original sender only stating that I don't do chain letters. It usually works except in the case of one of my daughters who persist in sending them.
Chain Letters
by mrzeek - 11/3/07 6:35 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Just wanted to tell about my experience so no one else gets into trouble. I forwarded a chain letter about gas to some people listed in my address book which I thought were friends and one of them reported me to aol for violating TERMS OF SERVICE and I got kicked off aol for sending spam.
This person could of blocked me or sent me an email instead of being so mean. So if you are going to forward mail I would suggest copy and paste the body of the letter so you are not fowarding all those addresses which is considered spaming.
As far as talking or saying something about someone in an email, never write anything on paper or email that could come back on you in the future.
chain letter e-mail
by raremood55 - 11/3/07 6:56 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
is just a big waste of time - why even bother
delete without reading
by MrMe003 - 11/3/07 8:43 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
eh :/
we just talking about this and i say that when i get somekind chainletter, i e-mail that person who started it and send very bad mail for he/she so he knows that he dosnt send me any of these anymore.
Chain Emails
by eightsouthman - 11/3/07 9:03 AM In reply to: Poll: What do you do when you receive a chain letter in your e-mail? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Anyone in my address book knows there is no quicker way to **** me off than to send one of those things, especially the ones DEMANDING you to send it back to the original sender "because you love them" or some other such nonsense. If I were smart enough to do it, I'd send it back with a with a virus.
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