RHEA-L Archives

From: "sooner_1" <>
Subject: [RHEA] forwarding messages
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 23:27:30 -0500

I have found that a good rule of thumb to use with regard to ANY email you
receive that says "forward this to everyone you know" or anything of that
nature is to DELETE IT. I consider these types of email to be
"human-assisted viruses". There is about a 99.95% probability that it is AT
BEST pure fiction, and at worst some sort of hoax intended to cause you and
those you send it to problems. If you received a letter in the mail telling
you about some alleged marketing plan by a famous company, you would
(intelligently) toss it in the trash, even if it said in big bold letters
"make copies of this and send them to everyone on your Christmas list".
Treat email the same way. Granted, forwarding emails SEEMS to be free...
but it's not. It clutters up lists and other people's email boxes, and if
you read it with ANY kind of critical eye, it's obviously not true. Just my
opinion. Take it or leave it. But PLEASE, DO NOT forward it to everyone
in your address book.

This thread:

• [RHEA] forwarding messages by "sooner_1" <>