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2. You
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Below please find one of my Email Signatures which
I use when Replying to some of the email I get, particularly
the kind of email that had been Forwarded many times, with
a lot of email addresses exposed in "To" and
"CC"
box, as well as in the "Body" of the email itself.
Rather than get angry at the Sender for emailing
me a joke, or Chain Letter Hoax etc. ( here is a popular EXAMPLE ),
and ignore that email, I Reply to that email ( PLEASE do not
confused Reply with "Reply to All").
Then, from my Signatures List, I choose the
following Signature which I Saved under this name:
"BCC=Privacy!!!_Fight_Spam!!!.
It's obvious that many Senders, mostly AOL folks ,
need a little "education" as far as "Cyber Space "goes,
and they often thank me for this tip. See my own latest BCC/Autoreply
Email Signature that I use each time I get email from someone
(usually on AOL) who simply doesn't know any better...
Please feel free to borrow and alter the following
Signature as you see fit, or make it a part of your own web site,
or you can link your web site to this page http://arkady.com/bcc
Dear XXX......
This sounds interesting.... (I am trying be
nice)
or
Dear XXX......
To me this sounds like a hoax, but I could be
wrong. Anyway...
As a part of my Cyber "Community Service":),
here is my Auto Reply, a "cyber tip" to consider:
When you send out a mass mailing like this one,
and you enter all addresses into "To" Field(box), everyone's
email address is seen, and it eventually ends up on countless
SPAM(Junk Email) lists. Whether you use "Groups", or
enter each address manually, I think it's better to use "BCC"(Blind
Carbon Copy) Field(box). Doing so makes all addresses "invisible"
to everyone, but the sender, thus reducing the SPAM problem.
I do hope that you don't consider this to be
a dig of any sort. It's just that there are plenty folks who
make a nice living selling email addresses to SPAMer's who
resell them further, and so on, and so on. It's all done via
software, and this is just one example
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=7777&db=mac
that extracts email addresses from a web page,
or an idividual email, or from many other sources etc, and then
adds them to an ever growing databases(s) which get re$old many
times. Also, the "real" SPAM professionals use
very slick software that takes our addresses and comes up with
countless letter combinations that are similar to our email address,
kind of like fishing. So, whenever you Forward email, please
use BCC only, and
delete all To and CC addresses from the "body" of that
email. I wish those addresses could be deleted automatically,
but, alas, we have to delete them manually.
Once our email addresses get "harvested",
we eventually get flooded with SPAM, and we have to either change
our email addresses, thus often risking losing touch with people;
having to print new stationary, like business cards etc, or we'll
have to put our trust in Junk Email Filters etc. which can also
filter out some email that is not Junk! Therefore, the
less "fuel" we provide for those folks, the better
off we all are! The more folks know about this BCC concept, the
better for all of us! So...
PLEASE forward this information,
or this webpage:
http://arkady.com/bcc.html
to everyone you know!!! And PLEASE make
sure that you put EACH email address in BCC Field:), otherwise
you'd be defeating the purpose!!! And of course,
Bookmark it by adding it to your web browser's Favorites.
I also agree with the following advice:
Never Reply to SPAM by following their
Unsubcribe Links, because, if you do, you only confirm that your email
address is valid, and thus should stay on their SPAM List!!!
Writing to those folks "Dear ... Please Remove me from your
list" is a waste of time, since you'd be
"talking"
to a robot, and not an actual human being!!! For more info on
the topic of SPAM take a look at these articles:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=spam&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2002/03/18/spmlmt.DTL
BTW, I am not deriving a lot of joy out of
being right in those cases when a hoax involves "Missing
Children". Not only that hoax "artists"
are wasting our time, and feed our email addresses to their SPAM "cousins",
they also do a huge disservice to law enforcement folks
who try to rescue children that actually are missing!!!
Such insane
"games" that those SPAM-HOAX folks play are particularly
ugly after 9/11/01.
Either way, I'd like to know your opinion on
this.
Meanwhile, here is a general idea on how to
add Individual Contacts, or Groups into BCC Field.
After you create a Reply Message...
1. Click in BCC Field.
2. Start adding addresses there(Individual Contacts,
or Groups), into BCC Field(Box).
Otherwise, what you have been doing up till
now was SHARING all(?) your email contacts with the rest of the
world by making them visible in
"To"
and "CC" Fields(Boxes).
I hope that this Auto Reply Instructions are
helpful. You might also want to seek help from your friends who
use the same email application(Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape,
AOL etc.). BTW, if you add your own email address into
BCC Field(Box), you will see what your email looks like to everyone
else -- "Undisclosed Recipients", or you won't see
any addresses at all.
Be safe and well.
-- Your Name
your web site: http://etc.
VERIFY HOAXES!!!!
The easiest way to do it is to Copy a portion
of a Text from the Suspect Email, and Paste it into Google...
Most like you'll see the answers from one of these popular sites:
http://urbanlegends.about.com
http://www.snopes2.com (type
in your keyword, and click Search button)
http://www.truthorfiction.com
Example:
Copy and Paste the following sentence into Google:
For every forwarded copy of an e-mail received, the American
Cancer Society will donate three cents to cancer research.
You'll
get this result! And you've probably already seen this one
about Microsoft
giving away $$ if you forward a particular email...
Learn about Email Etiquette(Netiquette) and
more... here:
http://emailreplies.com/Index.html
More Information on SPAM:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=SPAM+EMAIL&btnG=Search
Hope this helps. Thanks for stopping by...
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