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RANT: I hate forwards.

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xirtam

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You know, no matter how many times I tell people, I always get those "forward this to all the people in your address book" e-mails. Most of them are completely worthless, and I delete almost all of them the instant I get them.

The other day, I had like 12 of these things in my box. I call that spam.

I have two questions: who the heck makes these things, and why are people dumb enough to spread them all over the freakin' net?:|
 
Why ask us? Ask the stupid friends of yours who fwd them to you. 😉

I've made it clear with everyone who get's my E-mail address that I want NONE of those silly forward/chain letters. And after two or three nasty "replies to all," they stop 😀
 
*All* of them? Really? This goes back to those stupid "new computer" user thread of yours. The stupidity just doesn't stop with the forwards! Ugh!

...how nasty do you have to get?...
 
Originally posted by: xirtam
*All* of them? Really? This goes back to those stupid "new computer" user thread of yours. The stupidity just doesn't stop with the forwards! Ugh!

...how nasty do you have to get?...
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Well, when I put the GF's mom on the net, she was mass mailing every Urban Legend forward letter she got to dozens of local folks. I simply explianed that it was a hoax or a legend, provided a link to Snopes, and asked again to not be sent mass forwards by people. It took three or so times before she got the message.

When my Niece and Mom started doing it with "have a happy day" type of crap, I replied with long, short tempered letters about how E-mail forwards were spam, and the links in half of them were to dangerous websites that might spread viruses. It took them two times to get the message. 😀

Just remember, hit "Reply to all" so you can tell EVERYONE who is participating how mass forwards are spam.
 
Just got this one two days ago:
  • Now this is my kind of chain letter....

    HAVE A GOOD LAUGH ON THE BEST CHAIN LETTER EVER:

    Hello, my name is Carol and I suffer from the guilt of not forwarding 50 billion fvcking chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them on, a poor 6-year-old girl in Arkansas with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her to a traveling freak show.

    Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you, and everyone to whom you send "his" email, $1000?

    How stupid are we?

    "Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get laid by every good looking model in the magazine!"

    What a bunch of bullshit.

    Basically, this message is a big KISS MY ROSEY RED ASS to all the people out there who have nothing better to do than to send me stupid chain mail forwards. Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my house and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing a chain that was started by Peter in 5 AD and brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower. fvck them.

    If you're going to forward something, at least send me something mildly amusing. I've seen all the "send this to 10 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nickel from some omniscient being" forwards about 900 times!!

    I don't fvcking care!

    Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually contributing to by sending out these forwards. Chances are, it's your own unpopularity. The point being? If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. If it's funny, send it on. Don't piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth who has been tied to a dead elephant for 27 years and whose only salvation is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you forward this email.

    Now forward this to everyone you know. Otherwise, tomorrow morning your underwear will turn carnivorous and will consume your genitals.
I too pass on the miscellaneous links to Urban Legends, Hoaxbusters and Snopes. I try and send my terse replies just to the people in the list who actually "forwarded to all", rather than everybody they sent the message to. I also send friendlier instructions to avoid these hoaxes to the balance of addresses in those forwards.
 
"...how the hell do those little friggin <<< get in emails in the first place??"

In Outlook Express, click Tools, Options, Send tab, Plain Text Settings, check the box for "Indent the original text with...", then select the symbol to use, with the choice of '>', '|' or ':'. Most mail programs default to using '>'.
 
Damn, i just wish they would leave out those symbols - it's not like we're too stupid to understand where the previous message began and ended.
 
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