1 post tagged “letter to all those who forward mail without thinking”

Actually, what I wanted to tell you all is that I now have access to your emails because someone on your email address book, in some cases you yourself have forwarded them to me.

When you want to send funny emails on, please consider the privacy of other people. Your email program has a three buttons: To, Cc and Bcc.  On Hotmail you have to click a button that says to show two of them, but they are there.

When you put an email address in the To section, absolutely everyone else that gets that mail then gets to see everyone else's email address. They then forward the mail on to other people. Do you really want your email address going off to strangers who could use it for unscrupulous means?

Cc stands for Carbon Copy. It's really quite the same as the To section in as much as all the people you put in there will also know now that mail has been sent to all of them.

By far the safest option is Bcc. It stands for Blind Carbon Copy. It should look for all the world as if you were the only one who got this mail. Actually, there are a huge number of people I have sent this on to and I got every single address from a 'Wow isn't this great!!!' style email that had been forwarded to me.

When you get a mail that is just so good you have to share, there are simple steps to breaking that chain. By the way, speaking of chains, just because an email screams 'SND ME TO 8 PPL NW OR NVR FND TRU LV!!!' - do you really think that's true? Looking through the forwarded mail I get, I think it is. It isn't. Break that chain!

1. Delete any emails showing in the body of the email.
2. Be brave - take off anything that says send me to however many people 'or else'.
3. Send it to all your mates, but use the Bcc: box.

Why not try your new skills with this email? Teach everyone on your address book how not to pass on your email.

Lizz