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Re: How to Stop Chain E-mail Forwarding from Relatives & Coworkers

Natalie N — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:40:52 -0000

Aunt Polly, you sound very much like one of those people who sends me these spam-chain-e-mails. The content does indeed matter. "It's the thought that counts" does not work with e-mail because forwarding pictures of cats does not take any effort or consideration. It's not a matter of etiquette, but a matter of consideration and respect. People who forward junk don't care about the people they send their messages to, they just want others to believe they care.

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Re: How to Stop Chain E-mail Forwarding from Relatives & Coworkers

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Re: How to Stop Chain E-mail Forwarding from Relatives & Coworkers

Brett Borders — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:31:44 -0000

TheFutureIsRed,

For me, that's the worst feeling. Adding my e-mail to a list without asking me is like adding my cellphone number to an autodialer.

Feel free to copy what you need. It may hurt the person's feelings, but it usually works.

Re: How to Stop Chain E-mail Forwarding from Relatives & Coworkers

Aunt Polly — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:21:16 -0000

This is bad advice for dealing with people you actually know. The person is sending you something because they are being inclusive and you return the favor with exclusion. It doesn't matter the content of the mail, you have plenty of ways to filter without telling the person, in essence, to stop spamming you.

The person thinks the content they are sending is interesting or funny and by forwarding it makes a judgement that you will like it too. To respond that not only do you not like, you think the person is wasting your very valuable mailbox space is a pretty big insult.

If you don't know the person or don't care to insult them, go ahead and follow this advice. You can argue all you want that the spammer is showing poor etiquette but part of social etiquette is tolerating the attention of others. Be gracious to the people in your life.

Re: How to Stop Chain E-mail Forwarding from Relatives & Coworkers

Asswass — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:57:28 -0000

Why can't you flag your aunt's email address? send it to the spam box?

Re: How to Stop Chain E-mail Forwarding from Relatives & Coworkers

Nishadha Silva — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:34:17 -0000

I guess your approach is ok for non tech savvy people but I think you should be firm about this issue when dealing with tech savvy people. I work in an IT company with more than 700 employees most of which are Software Engineers. But I still get mails like this from them. A blunt firm response usually ends all mails chain or otherwise

Re: How to Stop Chain E-mail Forwarding from Relatives & Coworkers

chill music — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:34:15 -0000

Well, I just delete them.
If there are thousands of mails coming from one person I remind him or her on a friendly basis (first) to stop that:-)

Re: How to Stop Chain E-mail Forwarding from Relatives & Coworkers

B. McAllister — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:05:52 -0000

Better than what a friend does...

He uses a different unconnected email address and 'replies' to the email with a request to be removed, as well as CC'ing any email address that was visible ih the original forwarded email, but this time, he changes the original forwarded content (leaving all the >> and stuff alone). He changes it to something that is extremely personal ("Have you tried XYZ to deal with your herpes? blah blah blah")

Usually people on the email stop forwarding them.. but I think your way is better and more direct.

Re: How to Stop Chain E-mail Forwarding from Relatives & Coworkers

Leigh Shulman — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:51:59 -0000

Perfect timing. My e-mail -- the one I only use for personal correspondence too -- was recently added to an e-mail list by a friend of a friend. Someone I've met, but don't know. So not cool.

I hope you don't mind I'll be copying sections of your letter and sending it to her.