don’t just do forwards
every once in a while i get a really long e-mail (or chain e-mail) from a friend or co-worker. i usually have to press the page-down key several times to reach the actual message which is usually very short. everything else before the message are the e-mail addresses where the message has been forwarded to and by whom. and those are a lot of e-mail addresses. if i was an evil person, i’d gather all those e-mail addresses and sell them to spammers. i’d probably get rich or at least have a little more money. but, fortunately (or unfortunately), i’m not an evil guy (yeah, right). what i would do is
- not to forward it to anyone else,
- or, if the message or picture is really, really cutesie-wootsie, first, i’d clean it up of the e-mail addresses leaving just the message and then i’d send it to me (to: myemail [at] address.com) and blind copy furnish everyone else (bcc: everyone [at] else.com)
this way no one else but me knows where the e-mail is going and the addresses of my relatives, friends, colleagues and clients are safe from e-mail harvesters.
so how does one do this? here’s a sample e-mail:
of course, you’d have to place into the to: and the from: fields your real e-mail address and put the e-mail addresses of the people you want to send the e-mail to into the bcc: field.
and don’t forget the cutesie-wootsie message.
that’s it.
