Posted on 01/04/2006 4:48:14 PM PST by 4mycountry
I have tried telling my relatives who continue to spam me that I delete any and all forwarded e-mails, but they think I don't mean theirs! ARrrgggg!
Any e-mail that looks like a chain letter is deleted and never forwarded, because, to me, it is anti-Christ, anti-God, and superstitious.
I've gotten that one, and it DOES rub me the wron way, but I just delete it and forget it.
I don't get that sort of stuff all that often, and it's even rarer still that something is worth keeping or forwarding, but if I do I'll send it individually, and remove all the names/addresses at the top of the mail.
The ones I love (NOT) go something like this:
"Poor little Timmy is dying in the hospital. But if you forward this e-mail, Walt Disney Jr./Bill Gates/Whoever has promised to send two cents for every e-mail that is forwarded, and then the doctors can save Timmy's life. Please have a heart and save the life of a poor, sweet, innocent little child! Thank you!!!!!!!!! But if you don't, well, all I can say is, how can you be so heartless that you won't even take two seconds to forward an e-mail to save a child's life?! you must be a mean b*****d, and what comes around goes around!!!!!!!!!!" LOL!
I get some every now and then, and My wife has too many people she knows that can't send anything but this kind of crap!!!!!!!
Sometimes their mail will come in in forward batches of 6 to 15 of these stupid time wasting things. I am so put off by these type of emails that I once replied back to a couple of the folks that sent them, asking if they knew how to type anything of their own.
One got so offended that she has never sent me anything else. The other realized that she had found the perfect way to push my buttons and she began to send even more.
IN fact, one of these forward mails that was sent to my wife by one of her friend, turned out to be an " April Fools Joke", which after opened, contained a worm, that corupted the files of our OS.
We discoverd that many of our friends had also gotten this little april fools worm, and it had the same effect on their computers as well. Turns out that she had never sent it, and therefore had been generated by some other sorce using her IP address, using her contact list.
My wife then understood why it was, that I had been telling her not to open such mail like this, and to just delete the crap. I now just delete them, and say nothing to the sender.
Yeah, I think I got that one a month or so back. ;)
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