This article appears in Dec 18-24, 2008.
Do you have a delete key?
I don’t mind that my friends send me emails. I don’t mind that they forward things I might find interesting, or funny, or whatever. Although I *do* mind that they can’t be bothered to check out the validity of their “deadly virus” warnings, or “if you fo
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Spam and advertising companies start these e-mails.. Once 100 emails get back to them each with 1000 addresses, they have even more people to spam/advertise too.
I feel your pain. Whenever I get one of those annoying emails I respond to the original sender and all of the addys on the recipient list with this link: http://bccplease.com. Over time I’ve received fewer and fewer annoying chain mails as people have either been educated as to the error of their ways, or if they seem incapable of learning I just add them to my delete list and be done with it.
Too true. I tend to just delete “fwd” messages from others now without opening them. May miss the odd fantastic item but easier on the nerves than seeing miles of other addresses.