02-September-2010

Fed up with chain e-mails

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My gripe is they way some people abuse email at work and send through this garbage. It kills me when I get email forwards from people saying, "watch out for..." and lists some urban legend to watch out for. Do these people have just tons of time on their hands or what? And how hard is it to check on www.snopes.com to see if it is true or not?

I made the mistake of telling this person at work (who has a very bad habit of sending everyone this kind of junk mail) that what she sent me was just a rumour, and she should check her facts first. The stuff sure hit the fan then and she went off on one!

On top it all, this email was sent throughout the entire company. Somehow or other I turned out to be the bad guy in the whole situation! I'm really at a loss for words here. I'm the one getting trash and when I say something about it, I get crucified.

So my question to all of you is, next time I get some sappy friendship email or a "If you love God send this to 8 people" email from her, do I ask her to stop forwarding this junk email, or just take it to the boss and let him deal with her?

By: A disgruntled chain e-mail recipient

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MikeP, I am only repeating what I read on the internet somewhere.
I had alot of them which my security could not remove & in the course of finding out how to get rid of them I read that that is where they come from. If that is wrong I would not know!
It made sense to me because the people who start these things off must have something to gain or why would they bother? I do get sent alot of them.

anon 23-Jul-2008 09:40

An email cannot 'contain a cookie'. A cookie is only stored when you go to a website,which you might do by clicking a link in an email, but you can control whether or not to accept cookies by changing the privacy settings on your web browser.

MikeP 22-Jul-2008 18:44

Have just discovered that most chain e-mails carry tracker cookies which can be a security problem so now I block all cookies except from sites I choose to allow.
I never forward them anyway as they are nearly all hoaxes or rumours.

anon 22-Jul-2008 16:11

Chain e-mails are a pain in the bum, but worse still are those phishing emails that are growing in popularity, or the ones that ask you to send money to Nigeria. As if we're going to fall for that one. Don't these people have anything better to do?

Moffat 27-Sep-2007 00:40

This issue really annoys me too because it jams up my inbox.

Daniel 01-Aug-2006 08:21

Chain e-mails, hoaxes and all that stuff are a feature of life these days. Live with it and do your best to avoid it. I generally junk any mail that I don't recognise or that has suspect subject line

Matt 25-Apr-2006 10:11

Yeah why do people do this? they must be bored or very stupid. Do you really think that your love life will increase 450 million % by sending this on?

Why cant people really just get a life?

Dave Bridgen 18-Apr-2006 22:09

Hell, don't you know HOW to use FILTERS??

There's also a program called 'Mailwasher' which can BOUNCE emails back to sender.

EASY really.

The Knowlegable one 15-Apr-2006 05:15

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