The Proper Way To Send An Email

Good advice for all of us.

Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail?

Every time you forward an email there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their email addresses and 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 Email 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 email, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That's right, DELETE them.


(2) Whenever you send an email to more than one person who do not know each other, do NOT use the To" or Cc: fields for adding email addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing the 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:. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in the "TO:" field of the people who receive it.

If that phrase does not appear, type your own email address in the "TO:" field, but put everyone else's in the BCC: field.

(3) Remove "FW: FW: 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.
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. 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 you own personal letter to the intended recipient. You position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition. (Actually, if 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 ain't so!)

(6) One type of forwarded mail is something like this: Send this email to 10 people and you'll see something great run across your screen or something really cute will happen. IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! Please don't let the bad luck ones scare either, just trashed them!!! 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 have been circling the net for YEARS!


Let's stop the junk mail and the viruses from now on!