A Mex-e-can, an a-rab and a God Fearin’, Red Blooded Patriotic American enter a bar….

[draftermatt]

Most of family and friends have gotten over their love of the forward button, but I'll never forget the guy who sent an anti Obama e-mail to everyone in his box.

I never recalled talking to this guy before, but he was an Architect so I'm sure I had.

He sent this message to over 200 people, most of whom hit reply all asking him to not send that sort of crap to them again, especially since it was work accounts he was spamming up.

Finally the offender's boss got involved and asked everyone to send their complaints to him and him alone and stop hitting reply all.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I don't mind being sent dirty jokes; a certain friend sends me a few every now and again, but they're actually original and funny. Some I have reposted on forums, others are a bit too sick/filthy/just plain out there to repost, unless I know for sure that I'm going to be allowed to post something like that; like on another friend's forum, where I have my own little thread for sick jokes. XD I have a very weird sense of humour; however, I also have the sense to realise when sick jokes are appropiate, and who to not send them to.

If I get stupid health myths etc, I just forward the snopes link. If I get any religious type propaganda, then I forward Pedobear/Mudkips/rude lolcat (yes, they DO exist) in return. The vast majority of people I know, know better than to send stuff like that to me. XD

[Fire_on_High]

-the picture of the dumb baby licking the pigs nose with the caption "how we got teh swine flu".

Ah, I thought that one was pretty cute actually. I'm a sucker for cute child + animal pics, as long as they don't involve something unpleasant for the animal as far too many of them do.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Ah, I thought that one was pretty cute actually. I'm a sucker for cute child + animal pics, as long as they don't involve something unpleasant for the animal as far too many of them do.

Yeah, I liked that one. Though I got it two or 3 times...

[Andara Bledin]

Heh. People usually don't send me mass forwards more than once.

I always reply with a huge primer on forwarding ettiquette including how to crop messages of the previous forward information and appended sig info, and how to BCC people and not expose other people's email addresses to people they don't know, and how to research on Snopes about how the warning they sent me was a hoax and that people who start those email chains are spammers who are enlisting the sender into sending spam for them.

Yup. After the first response, I usually never hear from these people ever again. Considering that they only thing they ever sent was some lame mass-forward, I'm not sad to see them go.

Funny thing, though, is I've actually gotten a couple replies thanking me for the info.

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[edible_hat]

I forward about 1 email out of 50, usually things only of interest to locals! Such as:
-the photos of storm damage from around a month ago
-the Rundle Mall pigs (look em up) wearing surgical masks
-the kid who was running in the house, tripped, and got a fork stuck up his nose
-actually funny jokes, most of which I also post to the joke forum here.

Others get deleted, which apparently means that by now I'm an unpatriotic unloved pathetic loser who has died 17 times.

edit: that reminds me, I must post the one about the $450 hotel bill...

[edible_hat]

Sorry about the double post here....

A Mex-e-can, an a-rab and a God Fearin’, Red Blooded Patriotic American enter a bar, and the bar tender says "What is this, some kind of joke?"

[XCashier]

Ok people! For the last time please keep your racist, political and other terribly un funny jokes (including blond jokes!!) out of my inbox...I don’t care that you love this country so much you don’t want billboards in Spanish (no, I won’t sign your petition). I don’t need another email filled with unfunny comics of that old bag from the Hallmark commercials, telling me how tough it is being a woman and getting older. I doubt the depth of our friendship is measured by whether or not I forward your ‘Angels Among Us’ forward, complete with a crappy MIDI track that BLASTS out of my speakers when it shows up in my inbox. Obama is not a Muslim bent on destroying the US, ‘gay’ isn’t contagious, and your poem about abortion? Yea, I didn’t even bother reading past the subject line before I canned it. I support our troops as much as the next guy, but I don’t think I have to pass on an email with a picture of a flag to prove it. And blond jokes? C’mon.

Sounds like my inbox. Yes, it is irritating as hell. And some of these senders just will not take a hint. If our friendship, our country, my luck or my salvation is dependent on my forwarding your e-mail to fifty other people including the original sender, I may as well just hang things up right now.

I always reply with a huge primer on forwarding ettiquette including how to crop messages of the previous forward information and appended sig info, and how to BCC people and not expose other people's email addresses to people they don't know, and how to research on Snopes about how the warning they sent me was a hoax and that people who start those email chains are spammers who are enlisting the sender into sending spam for them.

That's a good idea. I should do the same thing. Is there a copy of this primer on the net anywhere?

[BookstoreEscapee]

-the Rundle Mall pigs (look em up) wearing surgical masks

Heehee!! That's too cute

edit: that reminds me, I must post the one about the $450 hotel bill...

I liked that one, too.

[jedimaster91]

If our friendship, our country, my luck or my salvation is dependent on my forwarding your e-mail to fifty other people including the original sender, I may as well just hang things up right now.

Came here to say this. The ones that really annoy me are the religious ones that have something at the end along the lines of "Unless you send this to your friends, you're not a true <insert religion here>."

I'm pretty sure God would rather me quit spending so much time on line, get off my duff and serve my fellow man. But, yunno, I'm not perfect, so here I sit.

[Red_Dazes]

Oh thats the other thing people can stop passing around-the picture of the dumb baby licking the pigs nose with the caption "how we got teh swine flu".

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I haven't seen that particular one.... but I do have one similar on my computer that made me laugh. Same picture but the caption is "You little bastard! You've killed us all!" I just found it amusing.


As for the chain mail... I have a warning system with my friends, and it seems to work. I get a chain mail. I send a letter back to them saying "Please do not clog my inbox with your chain mail crap. I have no desire to be one of the 20 people you must mail this to in order to save the starving little goat boy with no arms. Nor do I particularly care if I will or will not have SUPER BAD LUCK for the rest of my life. Keep your spam away from me or I will delete and block you.
Thank you,
RED"

They get two such warnings and then they are blocked and deleted. I've had a few people find me at school and bitch me out for blocking them. But most get the hint and stop the spam.

^_^

[BookstoreEscapee]

I haven't seen that particular one.... but I do have one similar on my computer that made me laugh. Same picture but the caption is "You little bastard! You've killed us all!" I just found it amusing.

I've seen both versions. Also, "Patient zero"

Nor do I particularly care if I you will or will not have SUPER BAD LUCK for the rest of my your life.

Fixed for accuracy. Because if you don't receive it in the first place, it can't cause you bad luck...

[Ree]

I got the one with the little boy licking the pig's nose. I thought it was funny...the first time.

I also got one that I found hilarious.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I also got one that I found hilarious.

I got that last week and it cracked me up. Sent it to my mom and she said "That's terrible"...don't know if it's a "That's terrible and not funny" or "That's terrible and I laughed"

[Andara Bledin]

That's a good idea. I should do the same thing. Is there a copy of this primer on the net anywhere?

I have never seen anything like it. It's something I write out freehand when I do responses.

Here's a copy of the last one I sent. It's only about mass-forwards, and I didn't even get into how the thing they forwarded to me was just a huge haox and a waste of inbox-space.

A few rules for forwarding:

1) Delete all of the previous addresses and signatures that are added to every forwarded message. Nobody wants to hunt through a mass-forward email searching for the actual message buried in the lists of email addresses and cute little phrases and ascii signature pictures.

2) Use the BCC option in your email. Don't share your friends' email addresses with anyone else, even other friends, unless you know they want to get in touch with each other. Plus, if you BCC, then your friends won't be sharing your other friends' email addresses with their friends when they forward email without trimming the previous forward information. Stalkers and spammers love getting live email addresses.

3) Read any email that requests mass-forwarding and use your judgement. If an email says that "I got what I wanted!" take the time to wonder how they know they got it already, when the message was supposed to go out before the thing would happen.

4) Don't mass-forward anything to anybody before asking them if they want to receive mass forwards. Many people find them irritating, and some will put them in the same category as spam email.

I also got one that I found hilarious.

The Pooh one is on the public message board at my work. We're pretty laid back, so we get some pretty questionable stuff on there.

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