Okay....Pet peeve. How many of you have ever received the same e-mail like 10 times? I must get the same e-mails at least that many times, same e-mail, same content, only it keeps getting longer, and bigger, everytime it's sent, and everytime I receive it! Here's how it works. You get a great e-mail, the first thing that I usually do, is read it, then I typically respond to the sender without forwarding it, and then I check the "Forward To" area of the e-mail, to see who all it was sent to,
THEN I forward it, if it's worth forwarding to someone, whose names are NOT on the list. I was talking about this to my daughter-in-law and we were cracking up on how many times we get these same e-mails.
Family and friends with the best of intentions, never seem to read the names in the "Forward To" section of the e-mail
before they forward the e-mail, hence, everybody that I just sent the email to, sends it back to me, and we get the same e-mail again, and again, and again!! Before you know it, it comes full circle right back to me ten fold!! I chuckle every time I get these, and here is how it goes when I forward the e-mail to family and friends:
Forward To: Mary, Kathy, Mark, Christine, John, Jennifer, Charlotte, Sara, Erick, Erin, Kim, Tania,Nathan, Jacob.
You send off your e-mail, and who do I get copies back from? Mary, Diane, Mark, Christine, John, Charlotte, Sara, Erick, Erin, Kim, Tania,Nathan, Jacob. All of them go through their address book, and just start clicking names without seeing if they were on the "Forward To" list. Now I not only have a copy of what I initially sent, but also from them, and everybody else they ADDED to the list to let it grow....and grow.....and grow. If I was to print out the "joke" lets say, when I first got it, it would print out only a couple of pages, well by the time the e-mail circulates, and comes back to me, you can print out 4 or 6 pages just in returns.
Okay, I know some of you may say, "Some folks might have you on a "distribution list" , and that is probably true, but never-the-less, I still get the multiple copies. How can I fix this? Should I put a statement in the Subject line saying "Please don't forward back to me"? I doubt that it would work. So what is the definitive answer? Any ideas? C'mon, help me out here, there must be a way!! In any event, I'm not really sure there
is an answer, but I bet it happens to you...Let me know how you deal with it....Your friend in pen.....Gary.
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