OT why you get spam

I thought I would share this information with everyone, just as a reminder
of how
e-mail can cause spam to your e-mail.

Subject: why you get spam

Good advice. Excellent Info on Sending E-mail This came direct 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 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, and 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 two 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.
High
light 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) VERY IMPORTANT: Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person,
do
NOT use the To: or Cc: columns for adding e-mail address. Always use the
BCC: (blind carbon copy) column for listing the e-mail addresses. This is
the
way that people you send to 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.


(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.

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 position may carry more
weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address
on a
petition.



So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses.

This is really good information. I have seen it before. Thanks for educating
us today!

Laurie G. in CA

"Audrey" wrote in message
...
I thought I would share this information with everyone, just as a reminder
of how
e-mail can cause spam to your e-mail.

Subject: why you get spam

Good advice. Excellent Info on Sending E-mail This came direct 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 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, and 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 two 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.
High
light 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) VERY IMPORTANT: Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person,
do
NOT use the To: or Cc: columns for adding e-mail address. Always use the
BCC: (blind carbon copy) column for listing the e-mail addresses. This
is the
way that people you send to 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.


(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.

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 position may carry more
weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address
on a
petition.



So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses.

Audrey,

I have never seen this before but I knew most of it and one thing is
not accurate but is used just as an example. You rarely make a nickle
for a person going to your site. Most of the time it is just a penny
or two rarely even three these days, years ago you might of even made
a dime, I know I did at one time but not now. Also a lot of the sites
don't get paid unless the banner is clicked on and some don't get paid
unless something is bought from that link through your site. I guess
why I said that was I was looking at the number of hits I had to my
web pages yesterday and only made four bucks for over 18,000 unique
visitors and my visitor numbers were very low yesterday. Of course I
also have 3 more ad companies to check with and may have done better
with one of them but I doubt it. The first one I check is normally my
biggest paying one. I personally wouldn't waste my time to send out
those emails to make such a small amount of money.

Jacqueline

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 20:47:09 -0500, "Audrey"
wrote:

I thought I would share this information with everyone, just as a reminder
of how
e-mail can cause spam to your e-mail.

Subject: why you get spam

Good advice. Excellent Info on Sending E-mail This came direct 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 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, and 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 two 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.
High
light 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) VERY IMPORTANT: Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person,
do
NOT use the To: or Cc: columns for adding e-mail address. Always use the
BCC: (blind carbon copy) column for listing the e-mail addresses. This is
the
way that people you send to 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.


(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.

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 position may carry more
weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address
on a
petition.



So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses.