theyeti
11-18-2003, 09:13 AM
OK. So yesterday you got this email from someone you barely know. After scrolling down through 5thousand email addresses there was a really touching poem about a little 8-year old girl in Guam who was killed in a donkey accident. Then it warns you that if you don't send it to 5thousand more people, her ghost is going to haunt you!
First off... if you really believe this is true, please, go crochet or something. Find a new hobby. For our sake.
Secondly... if you absolutely MUST send this to your entire address book because of some primal urge, PLEASE delete all five thousand email headers from the top of the message so that 1)we don't have to spend 2 minutes scrolling down to get to something we don't want to read anyway, and because 2) our inbox, which sometimes receives useful messages and only holds so much space, doesn't appreciate being clogged up with 300K worth of junk every day!
Thirdly, if someone has asked you to please stop sending them these emails, not because they think you're an evil person but because they just don't have time to read about Dorothy in Guam, just put them in a different part of your address book! You can make a folder in there called "People who don't mind being bothered by Dorothy in Guam...." and send Dorothy to those.
and Finally, if you're feeling really nice or just have an abundance of common sense today... instead of sending your entire address book a forwarded letter, send them a personal one instead!!
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First off... if you really believe this is true, please, go crochet or something. Find a new hobby. For our sake.
Secondly... if you absolutely MUST send this to your entire address book because of some primal urge, PLEASE delete all five thousand email headers from the top of the message so that 1)we don't have to spend 2 minutes scrolling down to get to something we don't want to read anyway, and because 2) our inbox, which sometimes receives useful messages and only holds so much space, doesn't appreciate being clogged up with 300K worth of junk every day!
Thirdly, if someone has asked you to please stop sending them these emails, not because they think you're an evil person but because they just don't have time to read about Dorothy in Guam, just put them in a different part of your address book! You can make a folder in there called "People who don't mind being bothered by Dorothy in Guam...." and send Dorothy to those.
and Finally, if you're feeling really nice or just have an abundance of common sense today... instead of sending your entire address book a forwarded letter, send them a personal one instead!!
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