E-mail Etiquette

Very good article.  Did you know that 85% of all email circulating the globe is spam.  I hope the information in the following article reduces that significantly.

Tracking Emails.
Here is something everyone should read and act accordingly. If you don't, you're  hurting yourself and your email buddies.  Please read right to the bottom.

By now, I  suspect everyone is familiar with  www.snopes.com  and/or   www.truthorfiction.com for determining  whether information received via email is just that: true/false  or fact/fiction. Both are  excellent sites. 
Advice from Snopes.com Very  important!

1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says  forward this on to '10' (or however many) of your friends, sign  this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, you'll see  something funny on your screen after you send it, or whatever,  it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached  that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward  to.

The host sender  is getting a copy each time it gets  forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mail  addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.  Even when you get emails that demand you send the email on  if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus ....that's  E-mail tracking and they're playing on our conscience.  These people don't care how they get your email addresses  - just as long as they get them. Also, emails that talk  about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease  -  "how would you feel if that was  your child"....E-mail Tracking!!!

Ignore them and  don't participate!

2) Almost all E-Mails  that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are  similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send  business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break  the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was,  and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names  and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers  and spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for  their own profitable purposes.

You can do  your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this very email information to them; you will be providing a service to your  friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam  E-Mails in the future!

If you have been  sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you  know why you get so much SPAM!

Do yourself a  favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listings  regardless how inviting they might sound!...or make you feel  guilty if you don't!...it's all about getting email addresses  - nothing more!

You may think you are  supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT! Instead, you will be  getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a virus  attached!  Plus, you are helping the spammers get rich!  Let's not make it easy for them!

Also: E-Mail petitions are  NOT acceptable to White House, Congress or any other  organization - i.e. social security, etc. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the  person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and  you're just helping the Email  trackers.

AND MOST IMPORTANT:... don't forget... delete other people's e-mail addresses on your e-mails and when forwarding/sending use BCC:    You'll notice that the only name up top is yours and mine.