Web and
Email 101 Basics of Courtesy
B.
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"Please
Forward
to Everyone You Know"
Dian
D. Chapman says "Ok…fess up! Everyone who has ever
received
and forwarded the giant cat picture or the Good Times virus warning,
please
raise your hand. Embarassing wasn't it? The easiest way to save
yourself from
looking like Chicken Little screaming that the sky is falling is to
take a few
seconds to do a little Web research. A lot of scams, hoaxes, spam, and
junk
mail exist in cyberspace. And soon, you'll realize just how annoying
all this
junk mail can become. . .read
more . ."
C. Click "Please
forward
this message to everyone" - Mr. Georfe Dillon says,
"The net is choked with traffic as it is. Much of it is unwanted spam.
But
there's also the net version of the chain letter - send a copy of this
to
everyone you know - usually with some sob story attached and an
implausible (or
more likely impossible) promise that the message is somehow being
tracked and
that everytime it is forwarded a child will be saved of dying from
cancer and
the world will be made a better place. These are all bogus. At best
they are
benign wastes of bandwidth. At worst they may carry a virus. ACTION: In
short
the netiquette is: Do not ever forward anything unless you know for
sure who it is from, who wrote it and that the recipient is
either
expecting it or will be pleased to receive it . ". .read
more
D. Click "Sending
To: more than 1 person" Mr. Georfe Dillon says, "If you send
one message to a lot of people by putting . . . in the To: or Cc:
line
the result is . . .everyone . . .can see everyone else's
address.
. . . some people not want this (considering their address to be
'ex-directory' and not wishing to be 'replied to' by 50 or more
strangers)
. . . . .a much more serious security issue . . .
Most
viruses replicate by scanning address books and messages . . .
.in
folders for addresses . . . . silently forward from . .
.infected machine.
. . . you are exposing everyone to a greater risk of receiving a
virus
from someone else on the list. ACTION: Use BCC! If you insist on mass
emailing
you should put one address - (probably your own) in the To: line and
use the
'blind copy' or 'Bcc:' line for all the rest. That way no-one gets to
see the
list of recipients (and not only is this safer, but everyone is made to
feel a
bit more special, since they cannot see how many people have received
the
message)." . . .read more
. .
E.
Click "10
E-mail
Etiquette Resolutions for 2010" by Judith who says : It’s . . .
time to
make your resolutions . . .. 1> I will refrain from using bold or
red text
to reflect emphasis . . . will choose my words carefully .
. .
.2> will not forward e-mails that say “forward to all your
friends” .
. .3> will not list all my contacts in the To: or Cc: field. . .
that do not
know each other, . .. use bcc . . . .read
more
. . . .
F.
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"Recommended E-mail Etiquette; Got Disowned" by
Judith A site visitor writes:
“I think
your site is very helpful; so helpful in fact that I sent my own Mom to
your
site because her emails were coming across as very hostile in their
appearance,
although not in subject. Because of this, she decided to disown me – by
virtue
of an email nonetheless. Now what? “ Yikes!!! That is overreacting a
just a
bit! That said, your Mom is not the first to react so dramatically when
it was
pointed out that they were doing something wrong . .More
. . .