Why do intelligent people

[jmarie]

Why do intelligent people

in this day and age, STILL

Send FORWARDS??????

And why don't I have the nerve to tell the offenders to STOP it?:mad:

End of rant.

[Gumbeaux]

>>>>Why do intelligent people

>>>>in this day and age, STILL

>>>>Send FORWARDS??????

>>>>And why don't I have the nerve to tell the offenders to STOP it?

>>>>End of rant.

Send this message to five other people and you will be truly blessed. J/K

[Chelle D]

lol

I wonder the same thing all the time. Especially the people that ONLY send forwards and never email or call. I don't even open them anymore.

[misskitty100]

I HATE this!!!

But worse is attending some home-based party 5 years ago and you are now on their email list which lists everyones email address and gets sent out a million times a year to who knows who. If I get this type of stuff, I now email the offender and tell them to use BCC's or stop emailing me all together.

BTW, the last forwarded email we got was 2 days ago about earthquake stuff. A day after, we get another email with corrected earthquake stuff from the same person...:rolleyes:

[cumulus]

LOL.

I have an email address that I give to people who I know will inevitably send me forwards (i.e. DBF's dad).

I check that address once a month just for a laugh. Do people just have no idea? Or do they actually care about the useless information?

[do-lolly]

The funny ones don't bother me, but the ones that tell me that Bill Gates will pay me for fowarding this email, or that my credit card info is stored on my hotel room key, drive me up the wall. Whenever I get one of these ridiculous "Beware" emails, I promptly send them a link to Snopes that shows them how false it is. I've found that after I have sent two or three Snopes emails to them, they start researching themselves before fowarding on anything else. One person I know will say up front now, "I've checked Snopes, and this one is true. LOL

I also really hate the really sappy ones with music and sickly sweet cartoons on them almost as much as the Danger Danger Will Robinson emails. LOL

[tiffanic]

Joyce,
If you think it is bad as an adult, try having a thirteen year old daughter! Mine forwards things to me even when she KNOWS I don't open them. She watches me delete them all the time...

I think she (and her peers) are personally responsible for supporting the long lives of those "send this to six people and you will get kissed on Tuesday" forwards. I love it when the email says you must forward this to six people AND send it back to me too . Why??? So bored teenaged girls can get even MORE useless emails?

I just want to sit her down and draw out the actual path of each email that requires the receiver to respond by sending it to others (in addition to the original sender). It's gotta cover the globe in a matter of days!

And, for what it's worth, teenaged girls even know about snopes, but mine and her friends refuse to use it. It's just more fun to perpetuate false information, I guess.

Okay, end of rant.

Tiffani

[RebelsLGB]

I don't mind the funny ones or the ones with cute animal pictures when I'm at work. We send them around the office.

But at home, I delete all of them, they don't even get opened.

[grammadee]

I have two pre-teen grand-daughters that each
have a computer. Oh My! The stuff they do send!

Then I have those that send about the missing
children. These should always be checked out
on Snopes.com. And those that think just the
opposite of my political views. When I open the
ones with birds and butterflies I immediately
delete.

There are a few funny ones going around but
for the most part they're very old and boring.

I'll read the old and new Maxines though. Love
her. I agree that for the most part the forwards
are a waste of my time.

gd

[Robyn1007]

I finally changed my primary email address to one that I use for absolutely nothing online and never gave to the biggest offenders of forwarded emails. I don't even open a forward unless it's from someone who almost never sends me one because then it's probably a really funny one. My mom's company has a safety program where they are all supposed to contribute safety points (and their bonuses are partially based on whether they do). Unfortunately, some people contribute the stupid "Beware the note on the windshield" type of emails. Mom then sends them to me. I then send her the snopes.com link. She is an intelligent woman, I don't get why she can't check snopes before hand (or why the managers distributing the safety points don't check it first).

[Max Sutton]

I have a senior citizen friend who now only sends out FWD e-mails. I've e-mailed her in the past to tell her the e-mail that she forwarded was bogus. She keeps sending out stupid FWD e-mails. So, I just delete them all without reading them.

[donnamp14]

I love the urban legends and that crappola that my SIL and FIL constantly send. This past week in a fit of pique, I sent them the link to snopes.com and told them that before they send any more forwards to check them out first. (And I have not heard from them since, thank goodness) If one more person sends me that bogus tale of my cell phone number being given to telemarketers....

My favorites are the ones that you have to click through 85 times to get to the actual bogus tale... :mad:

End of rant!

-Donna

[LakeMartinGal]

THe ones I resent are the "ashamed of God" ones... and all the ones that promise bad luck if I don't forward. There's enough stress in life, I don't need to worry about bad luck or dying if I don't send on a useless email. God knows whether I'm ashamed, I don't need to forward emails to tell him! :mad: :rolleyes:

I'll click twice to open a forward, if the sender usually sends good ones, but never more than that, and I've told people that, too! I've tried sending the Snopes link, but I'm ignored, for the most part, though I appreciate it if I've unknowingly perpetuated an urban legend or falsity.

I'm going to try replying to people who don't use BCC, telling them what they're doing to may email address... maybe they'll cease and desist when I point out that could be the cause of spam! :(

[Debralynn]

OK, I'm guilty of forwards :( I only send very funny ones and didn't think that people didn't like them. I guess I will start to ask the people I am sending them too, if they want me to stop. Maybe some of your friends are like me, and just like to share a laugh. Does it help that, I never forward chains that say somethng bad will happen if you don't forward the post. (and I'm still around to tell that I broke the chain.....hehehe) hmmm, sorry
but guilty.......Debbie p.s and by the way, I am intelligent.

[Robyn1007]

OK, I'm guilty of forwards :( I only send very funny ones and didn't think that people didn't like them. I guess I will start to ask the people I am sending them too, if they want me to stop. Maybe some of your friends are like me, and just like to share a laugh. Does it help that, I never forward chains that say somethng bad will happen if you don't forward the post. (and I'm still around to tell that I broke the chain.....hehehe) hmmm, sorry
but guilty.......Debbie p.s and by the way, I am intelligent.

I used to send a few and only ones that I knew a specific person would appreciate and they know that I don't send them otherwise. If you think about it, I have days when I get upwards of 15 of these in my inbox. Most are urban legends. It becomes cumbersome to deal with them. Like I said earlier, I have about 3 people that if they send something I'll open it because I only get something from them maybe once every 3 months.

[jmarie]

I have days when I get upwards of 15 of these in my inbox.

I can get upwards of 15 from one person. they apparently just click on Forward..Send.....Forward....Send....

And this is from their work email address, so are they reading all of this stuff at work and then sending it.

If I get something funny enough that I think a particular person (let's say, my oldest brother) will really enjoy then I will clean it up, removing all of the slashes and names and send it.

But lots of times, someone in my family will do a mass mailing of a forward, then someone in the family who received it will do another mass mailing, to all of us who are in the adress book and then yet another person will do another mass mailing to the same group of people so that in the same day, I have received the same forward from three different people in my family, ALL in the same day....
:rolleyes: SHEESH:rolleyes:

[sigmaration]

In addition to the fwds perpetuating urban legends and false information, I really hate the ones with a bazillion images attached. I have a good, fast broadband connection, but it still takes time for that giant email to download from the server and open in my email. And for what?!? Yes, the puppy is cute. Now leave me alone.

I don't mind email. I love my email. I practically live in my email -- from work, to school, to everything else. And luckily, I don't get many forwards... but it makes the ones I do get be that much more irritating.

[Beth]

It is annoying, but all my junk mail seems to be trying to sell me stocks, prescriptions, knock-off hwatches and lord only knows what (I don't open them and the titles sure don't gfive you a clue on half of them). They just want my money or access to my computer -- at least forwards from folks you know have some huimor or other interest involved, even if it's not something you appreciate as much as they thought you might.

I am getting more and more spam coming through. It amost all goes into a junk folder where I can dump it. DH says they are having more problems at work too, Maybe you can just tell whoever it is that you and your computer are getting overwhelmed, you have too much going on in your life right now, and while they might be intending to lighten your load with a chuckle or other amusement, right now you just can't read them and would appreciate them not including you on bulk mailings. It's worth a try, and you've certainly got enough to deal with that someone should be able to understand a considerate request.

[honeygirl1971]

If I get something funny enough that I think a particular person (let's say, my oldest brother) will really enjoy then I will clean it up, removing all of the slashes and names and send it.



This is what I do, and I do it extremely rarely. But, every once in a while, you do get a pretty funny one that you know a particular person (in my case, usually my mom) will like.

Beth, I feel like gmail filters out spam much better than any of the other email providers out there. If you don't use it already, you might want to try it...My grad school email account was the worst. They kept "upgrading" the system to improve the spam filters, but TONS and TONS got through anyway, and even when they did "filter" it, it still went into your inbox, it was just labelled "SPAM," as if you didn't already know that offers for viAGra and for 10$ Rolexes were spam...:rolleyes:

[Beth]

Just in the last few weeks, I've occassionally gotten a single SPAM message in my inbox. All the others (usually 10-20 a day at the current rates) are going intothe bulk/junk folder, where I dump them once or twice a day. I'd rather not have to deal with it, but I don't want to change my email address over it either.

[sigmaration]

The main reason that a lot of people are seeing a rise in the level of spam they receive is that most spammers are converting to "image spam". Instead of sending you a text email, they put the text on an image and put that in the email. That way, your spam filters (which look at the text of an email) can't read the text on the image and so it doesn't deem it as spam.

The quickest way is to set up a rule in your email program that all messages with images go to the junk folder, but of course that will yield a lot of false positives.