Do you really know how to use email?
Do you really know how to forward emails?
Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail?
Do you hate it? Well so do I, so read this and maybe you can help in some small way to reduce the amount of rubbish circulating the net and clogging up our email servers. Every time you forward an email there is information left over from the people who received the message before you did, namely their email addresses and names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and all it takes is for one person to get a virus, and his computer can send that virus to every email address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them to spammers. 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. How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps. Try the following if you haven't done it before: 1) When you forward an email, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). 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 email to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding email addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing ALL additional email addresses. This way the people you send to will only see their own email 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 Recipient s' 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 email you are reading. (You may have had to open numerous other pages before you got to the real forwarded message!) Ever get those emails 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 emails just to see what you sent. (5) Have you ever received 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. DO NOT DO THIS. The completed petition is actually worth a couple of dollars 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 addresses on a petition. Some other emails to delete and not forward are:
A. The one that says something like, 'Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great happen.' IT WON'T HAPPEN!!!! b. And don't let the bad luck ones scare you either, they should get trashed. c. Tempted to forward an 'Amber Alert, or a 'Virus Alert, or some of the other emails floating around nowadays? DON'T. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at www.snopes.com or www.truthorfiction.com or www.factcheck.com. It's really easy to find out if it's real or not. And one more thing.
Don't use HTML in your emails, switch it off. Use plain text only. HTML email is the spawn of the devil, loved by spammers and virus writers because it can so easily contain bugs.
Read your emails in plain text only and do not download images contained in any html emails.
The ability to switch off HTML is in your email applications preferences. If it isn't get yourself another email application that does offer it.
You don't need pretty coloured text and background images to write a message. It's not going to add anything to your prose. So let's stop the junk mail and the viruses. And get rid of the advertisements at the bottom of your emails! You pay for your internet why advertise free for them? If they want to advertise in your emails let them pay you!!!!
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Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail?
Do you hate it? Well so do I, so read this and maybe you can help in some small way to reduce the amount of rubbish circulating the net and clogging up our email servers. Every time you forward an email there is information left over from the people who received the message before you did, namely their email addresses and names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and all it takes is for one person to get a virus, and his computer can send that virus to every email address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them to spammers. 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. How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps. Try the following if you haven't done it before: 1) When you forward an email, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). 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 email to more than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding email addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing ALL additional email addresses. This way the people you send to will only see their own email 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 Recipient s' 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 email you are reading. (You may have had to open numerous other pages before you got to the real forwarded message!) Ever get those emails 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 emails just to see what you sent. (5) Have you ever received 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. DO NOT DO THIS. The completed petition is actually worth a couple of dollars 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 addresses on a petition. Some other emails to delete and not forward are:
A. The one that says something like, 'Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great happen.' IT WON'T HAPPEN!!!! b. And don't let the bad luck ones scare you either, they should get trashed. c. Tempted to forward an 'Amber Alert, or a 'Virus Alert, or some of the other emails floating around nowadays? DON'T. Most of them are junk mail that's been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at www.snopes.com or www.truthorfiction.com or www.factcheck.com. It's really easy to find out if it's real or not. And one more thing.
Don't use HTML in your emails, switch it off. Use plain text only. HTML email is the spawn of the devil, loved by spammers and virus writers because it can so easily contain bugs.
Read your emails in plain text only and do not download images contained in any html emails.
The ability to switch off HTML is in your email applications preferences. If it isn't get yourself another email application that does offer it.
You don't need pretty coloured text and background images to write a message. It's not going to add anything to your prose. So let's stop the junk mail and the viruses. And get rid of the advertisements at the bottom of your emails! You pay for your internet why advertise free for them? If they want to advertise in your emails let them pay you!!!!
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Get quotes for your overseas move from anywhere in the world to anywhere. Professional overseas moving companies waiting to quote you.
One simple form will get you several quotes from hand picked overseas moving companies.