The Ten Commandments of Email

[Warthog]

My goodness.... http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/06/13/mail.manners.idg/index.html

Although, some of them are kinda good. I wish more of my friends and family would listen to #6.

Warthog

[jman01pa]

This is pretty good. #6 is the best.

J http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[wtp]

haha, break the chain, that'll be hard for superstitious people, haha. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif

wtp http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[Richard_Cranium72]

Really good, I can only add, "Ask before you foward 7 million "cute" things you find." I have a couple of friends who obviously can't type so they stay in touch by fowarding all kinds of garbage that I have no interest in at all. When I asked them to stop this, one dropped off the earths face and the other ignored it and continued to send four to a dozen junks per day... grrrr DrVette http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Brangwen]

One that should have been included:

Clean stuff up before you "forward" it. How often have you received a forwarded bit of "wisdom" or a joke that has simply been forwarded from several hundred prior recipients, so you end up receiving hundreds of email addresses, etc., that you have absolutely NO interest in, and a message that has no format whatsoever? The text is spread all over the page helter-skelter. I have a hard and fast rule of my own: Press Del key before attempting to read it. I propose a Commandment whereby before a person forwards anything, they should copy the relevant portion, paste it onto a new email page, format the text into a state of legibility, then send it along if they must.


Brangwen http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by Brangwen (edited 06-14-2000).]

[Roy]

>>>>>>>Brangwen ~
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I'm with
you 100
>>>>>>>>%!!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>It drives
me
>>>>>>>>crazy when I
get
>>>>>>>>something that has
been forwarded
>>>>>>>>>umteen times and
reading it leaves my eyes
>>>>>>>>
crossed!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[noresull]

I just sent that to practically everyone on my mailing list! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Dave_H]

Here is Roy's message cleaned up with the eCleaner (freeware):
------start-----
Brangwen ~

I'm with you 100 %!!

It drives me crazy when I get something that has been forwarded umteen times and reading it leaves my eyes crossed!
------end-------

I always recommend it to those "forward happy" friend of mine with compleate instructions on using it. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif
Cleans up all that >>> Junk and restores the formatting.
eCleaner (http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/stories/info/0,,000XUH,.html)
Dave