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#98931 - 12/11/06 03:03 PM
Chain E-mails
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journeyman
Registered: 08/16/06
Posts: 319
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I get these every so often, usually with a prayer or something religious attached, asking me to forward it to ten friends, and telling me I'll be blessed somehow if I pass it on. Sometimes with dire warnings of what will happen if I don't pass it on.
Now, I have two problems with this.
One - I think it's great if someone wants to send a prayer to me. Something that touched them that they want to pass on. That's not my hitch. It's the DEMAND that I send it on that bugs me. If the sender would say - hey, if this touched you too, think about sending it to your friends - I probably would consider it. But the "Send this to ten of your friends! Don't break this chain!" really makes me itch.
Two - inevitably, the sender has sent it to my daughters, my sisters, and any friends we have in common. THEY'VE USED UP ALL MY PEEPS! I don't HAVE ten more people to send it on to. (Not that I'm bitter! Heavens NO!)
And, I suppose, whine #3 - I think it cheapens the spiritual content to make it a chain letter. An encouraging note, a desire to pass on something touching, fine, but don't make it a chain letter, PLEASE!
Okay, whine over.
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#98933 - 12/11/06 03:45 PM
Re: Chain E-mails
[Re: jawjaw]
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Registered: 03/22/05
Posts: 4876
Loc: Canada
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I really enjoy reading the inspirational stories and jokes and definitely enjoy the chuckle that some of these emails bring to my day, but I too struggle with the chain letter aspect of them. I don't have 10 people that I can send things to, either because they themselves have forbidden me to forward chain letter-type emails, or because the sender has already used up the only 10 people who I think would be interested in these things. Once in awhile I'll send the jokes and photos to my brothers, but they're not supposed to receive attachments on their work computers and don't have time to sort through stuff when they're home (and my brother with cancer just doesn't have the energy to sit at the computer anyway).
So I enjoy the emails, the pictures, jokes and inspirational stories (I really enjoyed the recent one about the the tenors), and I share them with my hubby. Then we keep the ones we want to keep and delete the rest after a few days. (My husband actually does print some of them off and share them with his military buddies when they go out for lunch.)
I rarely ever send one along and so far, it hasn't killed me or brought about dire consequences that I know of...on the other hand, sending them to some people WOULD bring about dire consequences!
Edited by Eagle Heart (12/11/06 03:51 PM)
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#98934 - 12/11/06 03:46 PM
Re: Chain E-mails
[Re: jawjaw]
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Queen of Shoes
Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 6123
Loc: Arizona
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Just received this today: Just a word to the wise, E-mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other municipality. To be acceptable petitions must have a signed signature and full address. Almost all e-mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all this type of e-mail is, is to get names and "cookie" tracking info for tele-marketers and spammers to validate active e-mail accounts for their own purposes. Any time you see an e-mail that says forward this on to "10" of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get good luck, or whatever, has either an e-mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and e-mails of those folks you forward to, or the host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of "active" e-mails to use in spam e-mails, or sell to others that do. Check it out: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm
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#98935 - 12/11/06 04:30 PM
Re: Chain E-mails
[Re: Dianne]
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Registered: 07/06/06
Posts: 1521
Loc: Alabama
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Thanks for that informtion, Dianne. I agree...I don't like the send this to so many people either. I occassionally forward something that I think will be meaningful to someone else...but not because it says too!
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#98936 - 12/11/06 04:37 PM
Re: Chain E-mails
[Re: Jane_Carroll]
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Registered: 06/23/06
Posts: 3703
Loc: London UK
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Some are a worthwhile read and inspirational. Those I keep and may share with a few but, others just get deleted and I never FW. Have you had one that says you've won something? That one is a menace, too.
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#98938 - 12/12/06 07:08 AM
Re: Chain E-mails
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Registered: 01/10/06
Posts: 992
Loc: Honolulu, Hawaii
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Now that is why I love my "delete" button. LOL LOL LOL Cindy
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#98941 - 12/13/06 01:06 AM
Re: Chain E-mails
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Registered: 03/10/06
Posts: 404
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DELETE, DELETE, DELETE...GONE!!!
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