email 'forwards' and 'chain-mails'- is there any rationale?

Personally I find “forwards” very and I mean VERY Annoying

First of all you are annoying most of your friends by passing all that junk on and if they are your true friends and would like to remain so please exclude them from you ‘cc’ list.

It’s true. I don’t care about the cute animated cartoon with the dancing baby singing some parody of “Tiny Bubbles” in the bathtub.

I’ve got to the point now with some of my friends that every time I see their name pop up I know I’m just going to hit “Delete”.

I can’t tell you how annoying it was to wait for a huge attachment to download only to find it was some nonsense when I still have tons of other work.

There is enough spam out there already. Don’t add to it by sending junk to me.

Poking around researching this, I found Break the Chain. They’ve got a good take on why you shouldn’t be forwarding on petitions, virus warnings and such.

If a spammer gets one of those forwards you send me, they can add everyone of those email addresses to their mailing list because they are all right there for the world to see in the body of the email.

So by hitting forward, you might be causing your friends to get more spam.

The moral of this mid-day story I am posting for you guys is this. If you can’t overcome the compulsion to forward stuff to bunches of your friends, at the very least use the BCC function and Blind Carbon Copy them all. That way at least my email address is hidden and the only one the spammers will see is yours.

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