Re:OT Was FW: Police Warning /Use Bcc line!

[Guest guest]

Good grief!

Why, oh WHY do people not use the Bcc box in the address line?

Hundreds and hundreds of email addys are being sent all over

cyberspace! If you would not give out your friends' physical addresses

or phone numbers, why do all the folks who forward these spam-scam

emails who not only DON'T check snopes for validity not select all the

addys in the text of the email and just hit DELETE!?! Then, if one MUST

forward the email, use the Bcc address line. This *hides* all the email

addresses you are sending it to from all the recipients.

Just a little lesson in internet security *and* etiquette.

That was for free.

[Guest guest]

Absolutely and AMEN to this! Please all read this " Simple Guide to

Better Posting " .

1) HOW TO CROP MESSAGES

When you reply to posts, please remove any part of the original post

and extraneous text before sending. You do not need to include an

entire post to respond to it! Include just enough to give context to

your response. If you are not doing this, a busy moderator is having

to take time to do it for you.

Cropping messages is very simple. When you hit " reply " in your email,

the original post you are responding to will show in your email text

box. Right-click and highlight what you don't need and click " delete. "

2) Trim your reply to a message

Quote only *relevant* portions of the original post. Edit your replies

to include enough of the original message to give other readers the

context for your message.

3) PLEASE TRIM POSTS

In most cases it is not necessary to copy the entire post in your

reply. Please copy the *pertinent part* that you are replying to, make

sure it is clearly marked in quote brackets. To forget to trim or

worse, to copy back an entire digest makes the next digest

practically unreadable.

4) TRIM DOWN QUOTES

When quoting or responding to another person, *edit out whatever isn't

directly applicable to your reply*. Don't let your mailing or Usenet

software automatically quote the entire body of messages you are

replying to when it's not necessary. Take the time to edit any

quotations down to the minimum necessary to provide context for your

reply. Nobody likes reading a long message in quotes for the third or

fourth time, only to be followed by a one-line response: " Good Idea! "

This saves reading time, disk space, network bandwidth, and makes

things faster and easier for everybody.

>

> Good grief!

>

> Why, oh WHY do people not use the Bcc box in the address line?

> Hundreds and hundreds of email addys are being sent all over

> cyberspace! If you would not give out your friends' physical

addresses

> or phone numbers, why do all the folks who forward these spam-scam

> emails who not only DON'T check snopes for validity not select all

the

> addys in the text of the email and just hit DELETE!?! Then, if one

MUST

> forward the email, use the Bcc address line. This *hides* all the

email

> addresses you are sending it to from all the recipients.

>

> Just a little lesson in internet security *and* etiquette.