I seldom read that junk either. But some just demand some amount of response. Can you bleieve the whole list that letter was sent to are bad mouthing Snopes!! I just delete that! eom CG
Posted by: susienews
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 13:09:00 2008
Message:
To me, the worst part about those stupid forwards is that the sender typically refuses to "clean them up," by which I mean get rid of all the "<<
I often have to scroll down entire FEET of e-mail addresses of a bunch of poor saps who received the message before I did. Once I get to the actual message, I go directly to Snopes where I discover my valuable time was wasted trying to find that drivel to read it. LOL!
Here's a great invention that's free to download and isn't linked to any spam: http://www.papercut.com/emailStripper.htm. You paste a forwarded email in there, click "strip" and it gets rid of all the excess for you!
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Okay, now I'm seeing EVERYONE's messages in my font and color. How'd I manage that? --susie
Don't know about the font color. I had that stripper on a computer yrs ago and didn't ever have it on newer ones. Thanks for the link. eom CG
Posted by: DebS
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 10:58:14 2008
Message:
Oh I know - I hate those things. I don't get too many anymore, because most of the people I associate with on a regular basis don't believe in such things. But some guy at work (who I happen to respect a lot), sent that one about Obama to me a few months ago.....let's just say he got an earful, LOL. But of course, we're still good friends. He just got engaged and promised me a invite to his wedding :-)
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I sort of gave this lady an earful too and Tony told me I wasn't nice!! eom CG
Posted by: ingyandbert
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 10:04:33 2008
Message:
Tell me about it! One of my sisters sent me some kerap email that was a thinly-veiled right wing hoax (and she's not even a right winger, go figure). I immediately sent her back the snopes link and -- get this -- she responded, ''Yeah, I heard it wasn't true.'' WTH? They WHY OH WHY did she send it???
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really why send junk you know is junk? eom CG
Posted by: serialmom
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 10:02:11 2008
Message:
I almost never forward stuff. Particularly stupid stuff that threatens me with bad luck if I don't send it to so many people by such and such a date. I never give my email address to anyone because in spite of conversations just like this, two people I gave it to sent me junk. I no longer speak to either. If perhaps I do find something informative or really funny I will copy just the funny stuff without the previous recipients names/email addresses. Only to my daughter.
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oh those things with bad luck or a special surprise if you forward to 20 people!! eom CG
Posted by: Kate
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 8:48:13 2008
Message:
CG, a couple in our town (I have no idea how they got my address) sent me a Forward and I did as you did and sent it back with a Snopes.com correction. They sent it back calling me a nasty name. LOL
I now send their mail directly into my Spam Box (but I'm nosey so I always check it). A few days ago, they sent mail about the holocaust....'lest we forget'. I could not delete it ....so I forwarded it to a few friends. Donna sent it back to me with a correction. I resent it to her and said 'please! Don't make me correct them.' LOL Now it is deleted. LOL
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I got that one about the Holocost from my roommate, who is Jewish. She sent it to a bunch of other people and one of the people she sent it to, replied to all with the snopes link saying it was not true (or at least part of it wasn't - I can't remember the details)............DebS
Oops - ''Holocaust,'' temporary moment of brain block, LOL..........DebS
I didn't read it when you sent it to me Kate!! LOL eom CG
LOL! I am the *Snopes lady* in my family! They are all too lazy to do it themselves, so they send them to me, check Snopes on this, will ya!! mm3
Posted by: lak
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 8:44:07 2008
Message:
I also get irritated at those relatives that can't figure out how to cut and paste and hate forwarded stuff other than the real and I mean they have to be funny jokes. It's their own fault thought if they keep all the address' on because I have turned to snopes and fwd right back to all the sendees so they can see how stupid the fwd was also and hope they get the hint not to send me the junk.
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I got a note back to one on the list saying I don't want this junk either!! eom CG
