Spring Cleaning :)

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This is well-worth the reading. Enjoy!

Ahhhh....Spring is in the air and it is time for Spring Cleaning! And time

for my letter about Spring Cleaning Email!

As the internet becomes more and more popular and a bigger source of

communication, we find that our email becomes busier and busier and more

clogged. There are so many of you out there learning about this wonderful

tool! May I pass along a few helpful hints that will help us all. My

apologies to the " Internet Whizzes " ...you can just delete (or pass along to

others).

1) FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW: FW:

Well, you get the idea! Don't you just hate all of those emails with the

umpteen forwards??? I have to confess that once I open the 3rd one, I just

delete it. I figure it'll come around again!

Here's how to avoid passing that on down the line.

First, once you are reading that email that you want to pass along, DON'T

go back to the Inbox! In most email programs, you can FORWARD FROM THAT

PAGE! I have Microsoft Outlook and I can forward from there.

OR, better yet, you can copy and paste into a new email. Simply hold down

your left mouse key and highlight the email (please do us all a favor and

leave out those addresses!), go to edit on the top bar, click on " COPY " .

Then go to the new email, put the cursor in the body of the email, go to

edit and click on " PASTE. " VOILA!! There is the email, without all of the

addresses, without all of the forwards and none of those annoying little

<<<<<<< things!

2) THE MILLION ADDRESSES IRRITATION

You know what I mean...it's when you have to scroll down through every

single email address of every person who ever received this email!! If you

want to pass along that email, PLEASE copy and paste it into a new email,

leaving out all of those addresses. (See #1 above for how to do that.)

Everyone who gets that email in the future will thank you!

3) THE JOY OF BCC

> Most of you are familiar with the use of BCC - Blind Carbon Copy. In case

you aren't, this is a feature that allows you to send out that email to lots

of people, but each person only reads their name and does not have to wade

through every name you sent it to. It also allows you to send email and

everyone doesn't know who got it. The biggest plus, though, is for the

reader. Thank you for using BCC.

4) VIRUSES, DISEASES, COOTIES, FREE STUFF!!

Almost daily we get emails about viruses on the net, deadly diseases out

there, and free stuff just for sending this email to every one you know!!

Almost all of them are rumors and hoaxes!! How do I know? I go to one of

these reliable sites listed below and check them out. I recommend that you

bookmark these and then refer to them whenever you get one of those

" I-wonder-if-it-is-true " Emails.

>

> Let me tell you that Gap, Disney, Bill Gates, M & M's and Abercrombie and

Fitch are NOT giving away free stuff!!

> Anti-perspirants and tampons do NOT cause cancer!

Hypodermic needles in phone booths may happen, but that story won't die!

Poor Bundy, the sick child who is dying....I got that email over 4

years ago and then got it again last weekend.

And internet viruses....if they are for real, then don't you think it will

be on the national media?

" " was and it was for real.

These sites give you all of that info. Folks, we have a responsibility to

check things out before we pass them along. It speaks to our credibility.

> Just because it came from a " reliable " source and is on the internet, does

NOT make it fact.

>

> The sites to check out rumors, hoaxes and such are:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/culture/urbanlegends/library/blhoax.htm?pid=27

33 & cob=home

> http://urbanlegends.miningco.com

> http://hoaxkill.com

>

> 5) IF YOU LOVE ME SEND THIS TO 10 PEOPLE

> There are so many wonderful motivational poems and stories out there! I

don't want you to have your feelings hurt and I want you to know that my

love for you is NOT based on whether or not I return a poem to you and 10

other people. If you send me one of those " if you love me, send this to 10

people and back to me " things, I WILL not be sending it back. And don't

even think that for one minute I believe that bad things or good things will

happen to me if I don't pass along that email in one minute or less!! I put

my faith in God, not emails!! Why don't I pass it along anyway?? I don't

want to clog up the email any more than it is and besides, you've already

read it!! You are still one of my favorite people and I know you know that!

> 6) THE MYSTERY EMAIL

> No one knows what it is because there is no title in the SUBJECT line. OR

> the title is misleading. We get so many repeats of emails that it really

> helps to have the CORRECT title there.

> 7) KISS - KEEP IT SIMPLE SWEETIE!

> Those ornate colorful backgrounds are pretty, but bad on eyes! Sometimes

they are just to busy to read! And, if you sent me something that I wanted

to print out, it is difficult to do. Many of us would appreciate it if you

kept the backgrounds simple (white) and the font

> easy to read. If you are sending me a birthday email or an " Yipee " email

or an occasional one, then ok, but please, not for everyday use.

>

> Here are a few other helpful hints:

> 1) Don't forget to empty the trash! If you don't, every email you've

ever

> gotten or received is still there!! If you don't know how, call your

internet provider and ask them to talk you through it.

> 2) You'll also need to compact your files occasionally.

> 3) Address Groups - you can put your addresses in groups so that you

don't have to type the names in each time. For example, you can have one

with Customers, another with Friends, one for Relatives, Co-workers, etc.

Again, ask your provider to help you with this.

>

> I hope this helps everyone out there. I know that I am still learning

every

> day how to use this wonderful tool and when I was new at this email-stuff,

I appreciated any help I could get.

>

> Happy emailing!

>

Keep reading

>

> In light of the email I just sent out about email, this is hilarious!!

> Thank you Hurst for passing this along!

> Debra

>

>

> I was on my way to the post office to pick up my case of free M & M's (sent

to me because I forwarded an e-mail to five other people, celebrating the

fact that the year 2000 is " MM " in Roman numerals), when I ran into a friend

whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering

from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken (which

is predictable, since as everyone knows, there's no actual chicken in

Kentucky Fried Chicken, which is why the government made them change their

name to KFC).

>

> Anyway, one day this guy went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his

bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over and when he got out

of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEY HAD BEEN STOLEN. He saw a note on

his mirror that said " Call 911! " but he was afraid to use his phone because

it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that

would destroy his hard drive if he opened an e-mail entitled " Join the

crew! " He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer

programmer who was working on software to prevent a global disaster in which

all the computers get together and distribute the

> $250.00 Neiman-Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates.

> (It's true - I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES

HIMSELF,

> who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I

> would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.)

> The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing

kidneys, but a voice on the line first asked him to press #90, which

> unwittingly gave the bandit full access to the phone line at the guy's

> expense.

>

> Then reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected

needle around which was wrapped a note that said,

> " Welcome to the world of AIDS. " Luckily he was only a few blocks from the

hospital -the one where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one

whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the

American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he

receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's

in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to more than 10

people, you will have good luck but for 10 people only you will only have OK

luck and if you send it to fewer than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR

SEVEN YEARS).

>

> So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the

> way he noticed another car driving without its lights on. To be helpful,

he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang

initiation.

>

Send THIS to all the friends who send you their junk mail and you will

receive 4 green M & Ms -- if you don't, the owner of Proctor and Gamble will

report you to his Satanist friends and you will have more bad luck: you

will get sick from the Sodium Laureth Sulfate in your shampoo, your

spouse/mate will develop a skin rash from using the antiperspirant which

clogs the pores under your arms, and the U.S.government will put a tax on

> your e-mails forever.

I know this is all true 'cause I read it on the Internet.