Clif's Email
RantCome on people! Stop forwarding junk email to
your friends and co-workers. I still get lots of email that has been
forwarded two thousand times and has the email addresses of half the world
in it. Stop it right now! I know a lot of you out there are not newbies
anymore. If you get an email joke, funny story or a thought provoking
tale that you just have to pass on to all your friends, do not forward it.
I repeat, don't do it. Just copy the
story and paste it into a brand new email and use the BCC address
line to send it out to your many friends. BCC will make sure you aren't
giving their email addresses out to all the big spammers out there. The
new email will be easier to read and it won't contain all the email
addresses that were in it when the last goober sent it to you. One
more thing, the next time you want to send me an email that says
Bill Gates is giving money away to you for forwarding an email, get some
brains, or check to see if the story is true at Snopes.com before you send
it. If you ignore this message you will be cursed with seven years of
bad spam and your pc will get infected with a horrible virus that
will delete all your files, so please pass it on to all your
friends.
Recently published email resources and articles from Clif Notes and
others. For a good laugh read
this email.
Anti-Spam help site: CAUCE The Coalition Against
Unsolicited Commercial Email
Use a "spam eating" email address to
fake out the spammers: SpamhOle and
SpamGourmet
Good email practices: Email
Netiquette
Using BCC send: The Sins of the
Internet: Not Using BCC (hit ALT+B in Outlook
Express)
Use StripMail to remove forwarding marks: Stripmail
Sending very large email
attachments: YouSendIt.com
Sending an anonymous email: W3
Anonymous Remailer
Backing up email: WheresJames
OE Archiver and Winret
Make sure you spelled it right: Spell
Checker for Outlook Express
Alternative to Outlook Express: Foxmail
Checking for fake mail stories: Snopes.com <--- important and funny
(lmao reading some of these)
Examples of Scams or Virus emails: Examples
of Bad Email Messages (don't get caught with a phishing
scam)