My mother-in-law just sent me a chain e-mail. You probably have seen it. It shows soldiers in Iraq living in terrible conditions, then asks, "Did you get a good night's sleep last night?" There is a lot more patriotic stuff to it, from poetry to clip art.
I've gotten it maybe 7 times in the last 4 years, and I don't get many chain letters.
What I noticed about this one was over 100 e-mail addresses visible on the forwarded to or from lines.
Is this how spammers farm some of their e-mail addresses? It should be easy to create a program that will strip the e-mail addresses out of such e-mails, and out of their histories, and zap a return ad to them.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Yep. I always encourage people to use BCC instead of CC if they absolutely must forward an email.
--Mel
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Yep, they sure do.
I tend to do a snopes on the email and forward it back to everyone on that list. It tends to cure people of chain mailing me.
Oh, did I mention I hate chain mail?
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
quote:Originally posted by quidscribis: Oh, did I mention I hate chain mail?
I do, too. It's so heavy and just starts to chafe after a while.
--Mel
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
I remember snail mail chain letters. I had some penpals and they'd include some of those with the letters every now and then, so I'd send the letters to my cousins or something.
Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :
quote: Yep, they sure do.
I tend to do a snopes on the email and forward it back to everyone on that list. It tends to cure people of chain mailing me.
Oh, did I mention I hate chain mail?
I do too, and AMEN!
Posted by Black Mage (Member # 5800) on :
I now have a form letter explaining exactly why I dislike chain e-mails and why I'd like people to stop sending them to me. It's very polite.
Which may be why my friends think it sounds very angry, coming from me . . .
Posted by aretee (Member # 1743) on :
I send my mother to Snopes about once a week and she still hasn't learned. I get all the cutsie "Smile" emails that tell me I'm going to hell if I don't pass them all. I think I have an express ticket to hell then...
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Oh, you're probably on my transport vehicle, then. I'll be wearing the red jacket and carrying, let me see, Gone with the Wind and a red rose. How will I recognize you?
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
Yeah.. but how will you keep the Black Night at bay? With a moat? How unlikely is that. Pfft.
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
Send your mom a note explaining that all the porn-spam you recieve comes from spreading these cutsie chain letters.
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I'll be wearing the red jacket and carrying, let me see, Gone with the Wind and a red rose. How will I recognize you?