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I have noticed that many of my friends send me emails that they have received from other friends. While it seems easy to just click forward and put our friend's names in the TO/CC field of our e-mail program's address box, it is really a bad idea to do so.
Before you forward an email to someone, please do the following: (NOT HARD TO DO)
Please Don't Blast Messages Around Indiscriminately:
If you want to mail a large number of people don't paste all the email addresses into the TO or CC field of your email program. If you do that, each person you are writing to will be able to see the email addresses of all the other people you're writing to! This can be very annoying as people usually don't like to disclose their email address in public. Always use the BCC (blind carbon copy) function when composing the message and put your own email address in the TO box. This way people will only see their address and your address in the email header and others can't "spam" off your list of recipients. Your friends and clients will appreciate the privacy!
People, please! Be safe, be careful & BLIND CARBON COPY (BCC)! This is NOT a joke.
Don’t forward the email with history:
If a message is worth forwarding, it's worth taking the time to remove previous recipients' names, email addresses, signatures and >>> symbols first. I have received unsolicited e-mails from individuals who have gotten my address via a forwarded message. It would be easy to just copy the part you want to forward and paste it into a new email instead of simply forwarding the original in its entirety. This way, you can make sure people don't have to scroll down a bunch of old information to get to the good part.
Also remember, a lot us have a great deal of information in our sign's (signature files that appear at the bottom of many of our messages).
Before you forward an email... find out if it is true:
The Internet is the largest publishing media that has ever existed and eRumors can spread around the globe at lightning speed. Nobody intends to spread a false rumor. Each of us receive news and online offers each day, but on the Internet, most of them turn out not to be true. Whenever you receive a forwarded eRumor (like online offers or news) find out the truth about it before you click the forward button.
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