Clif's Email Rant

by ClifNotes

Come on people! Stop forwarding junk email to your friends and co-workers. I still get lots of email that has been forwarded two thousand times and has the email addresses of half the world in it. Stop it right now! I know a lot of you out there are not newbies anymore. If you get an email joke, funny story or a thought provoking tale that you just have to pass on to all your friends, do not forward it. I repeat, don't do it. Just copy the story and paste it into a brand new email and use the BCC address line to send it out to your many friends. BCC will make sure you aren't giving their email addresses out to all the big spammers out there. The new email will be easier to read and it won't contain all the email addresses that were in it when the last goober sent it to you. One more thing, the next time you want to send me an email that says Bill Gates is giving money away to you for forwarding an email, get some brains, or check to see if the story is true at Snopes.com before you send it. If you ignore this message you will be cursed with seven years of bad spam and your pc will get infected with a horrible virus that will delete all your files, so please pass it on to all your friends.

For a good laugh read this email.

Below are recently published email resources and articles from all over the web. Please add your comments if you have something that can help.

• Good email practices: Email Netiquette, CAUCE •

• Use temporary email addresses: SpamhOle, SpamGourmet, Spam.la, Trashmail.net and TemporaryInbox •

• Using BCC send: The Sins of the Internet: Not Using BCC (hit ALT+B in Outlook Express) •

• Remove forwarding marks: Stripmail or EmailStripper •

• Sending very large email attachments: YouSendIt, SaveFile, 11 best •

• Sending an anonymous email: Google search results •

• Sending an email into the future: FutureMe.org, MailToTheFuture.com •

• Backing up email: PicoBackup, Mozilla Backup, Outlook Express Quick Backup •

• Make sure you spelled it right: Spell Checker for Outlook Express •

• Alternative to Outlook Express: Foxmail or ThunderBird •

• Checking for fake mail stories: Snopes, Truth or Fiction and BreakTheChain •

• Scams or Virus emails: HoaxSlayer and Examples of Bad Email Messages •

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