This is important info to know. Please read and forward after you read
this.
Friends look at my emails I follow this principle.
ANC Commissioner 5A09
Shirley Rivens Smith, President
US Africa Sister Cities Foundation, Inc.
DC-Dakar
2000 Upshur St., NE
Washington, DC 20018
www.usasc.org
202-635-3138
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THIS IS AN IMPORTANT READ!
A friend who is a computer expert received the following directly from a
system Administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message
that
ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails.
Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you already follow
proper procedures.
LETTER TO MY FRIENDS:
Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 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 e-mail there is information left over from the people who got
the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & 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, an
d his or her computer can send that virus to every e-mail 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:
(1) When you forward an e-mail, 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 e-mail to more than one person, DO NOT use the
"To:" or: Cc:" fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the "Bcc:"
(blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This way the
people you send to will only see their own e-mail address. 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. When you send to "Bcc:" your message will automatically say
"Undisclosed Recipients" in the "To:" field of the people who receive it. If
that
< SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">phrase does not appear, type your own
email address in the "To:" field, but put everyone else's in the "Bcc:"
field.
(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 e-mail you are reading.
Ever get those e-mails 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 e-mails just to see
what you sent. (AMEN!) If you can't forward from that page, "Copy" the
info and then open a new email blank page and "Paste".
(5) Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position
and asks you to add your name and address 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. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal
letter to the intended recipient. Your p position may carry more weight as a
personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a
petition. (Actually, if< /SPAN> you think about it, who is supposed to send
the petition in to whatever cause it supports? And don't
believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just isn't so!)
One of the main ones I hate is the ones that say that something like, Send
this email to 10 people and you'll see something great run across your
screen. Or sometimes they just tease you by saying something really cute
will happen. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!!!!
(Trust me; I'm still seeing some of the same ones that I waited on 10 years
ago!) I don't let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed.
(Could be why I haven't won the lottery.)
Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other
ones floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward them. Most
of them are junk mail that has 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 <http://www.snopes.com/> www.snopes.com
. It is really easy to find out if it
is real or not. If it is not, please don't pass it on.
So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses. < /B>
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.
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