email fowards - a manifesto

[magikmama]

Do not foward me emails if you haven't checked them for veracity. For the love of god, spend 6 seconds and search it at snopes. Or better yet: stop the ugliness and delete these things. Don't read them. Just delete. End it

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[fuzzyscribble]

Aimee's sister forwards them to me ALL THE TIME. I get tired of giving her the snopes treatment.

I like this:

http://www.freewarehof.org/email.html

And here's a good one for when you're in the CC line with everyone else in their Outlook.

The following is not a hoax, it is the very real story of a lady who forwarded an e-mail to all her friends at once, including her ex partner. Because she used the cc option, it meant that her recipients could also see everyone else's e-mail details.

A year or so went by during which time she fell out with her ex. But what better way for him to get his own back than to "Reply All" to her original e-mail? Embarrassingly for her, he took great delight in telling all her friends detailed information about their sex life together.

Needless to say, the lady in question never again sent an e-mail that included everyone she knew!

[cornflakegirl]

Fucking word.
You rock.

[magikmama]

Hey! I don't work on tuesdays anymore, and I know that your van only sort of works if at all, so I'm offering you a ride to the polls if you need one. Let me know!

[cornflakegirl]

Thanks. Luckily I live two blocks from my polling place. And yes, I'm all set up to vote there. Also, I plan on having my van fixed within the next two weeks, now that it's colder. It kinda just sat in my dad's garage all summer but it's cold enough I want to drive it again.