An Open Letter About E Mails to Some of My Favorite People

I hear ya', Phoenix. Loud and clear.

Say, by the way, what's your email address?

My dear and loving aunt-in-law thinks that everyone wants slideshows about "how precious life is", little poems about "how lucky I am" and prayers all the time. Which is fine but man do I get tired of deleting all those emails.....

My husband has a friend, a really nice guy, who sends some of the corniest jokes that I have ever seen. Now my husband, who does not do much on the computer, thinks that you are obliged to respond, when you get a joke in the E Mail. He is not a good typist, so guess who has to write the response?

I'm sorry...I don't mean to laugh...but my hubby always uses the "but you type faster" routine with me too.

Phoenix, please provide your home address and SSN also, please.

Some days I'll open my email to find 20 new emails from my aunt, all in a row. Every one is a stupid joke, or a plethora of unfunny cartoons. Maybe I should simply reply "unfunny" to each one, except I just delete them all.

And I have a female friend that sends me all those stupid lovey-dovey friendship emails, that if you don't foward to 10 people you'll be brutally assraped in the mall tomorrow. I sometimes respond with my sick and twisted versions of the email. But that doesn't work because she gets a kick out of it.

I really don't care about others seeing my email address though, what harm will that do?

Slappy- I have many E Mail addresses, used for different purposes. I really don't care about all of them but one. That is the address provided by my ISP. I only use that for relatives, really good friends, and important stuff. I really don't want to be open to a lot of spam on this address.

The less that the address is circulated, the smaller the chance that it will be picked up by spammers.

For five years, I never got one bit of spam on that address. Then someone on my E Mail list must have gotten a virus, and the Viagra ads started.

Viagra cures viruses?

Hey Gus- No it doesn't, but think of the possibilities. You send that information to everyone in your address book, who sends it to everyone in his address book. After awhile, the news reports that Viagra cures viruses. (Too bad that Dan Rather isn't around anymore. He would be a great one to spread the news).

You and I go halvies on some discount Viagra from Canada, and sell it at a hefty profit to all these people who believe what they read in E mails. It won't cure the viruses, but many people will be so happy with the results, that they won't care.

We could make a fortune!

Cheers, hell yeah and right on, Phoenix!! I too, used to feel bad about just deleting forwarded crap that no one even bothered to cleanup and it had a jillion >>>> preceding said message! Not anymore. It's great that some of our friends and relatives have all the time in the world to do nothing but this activity, but in reality, it drives me bug$hit!!

Delete, delete, delete, delete, delete........and so it goes....

Why is it that the brighter the person, the dumber the jokes?

I too spend more time deleting than opening.

I've asked a friend, over and over, to stop sending what I call "canned" e-mail, i.e., stuff other people write that he passes along. His reponse would be, "That's what the delete is for."

Made me crazy. Finally, he stopped.

phoenix, I was hunting for your email address, but it must be one of those that are "hidden" by aka.

I too have a friend who sends those chain mail things.

The newest twist: Saying how when you send it out to 10 people you love you're sure to get it back to prove they love you too!

O Joy!

Now I'll have 100 people to send junk to.

Or how about when you send this e'mail to 10 people your phone is going to ring with great news?

Sure it is ..............

I was born at night, but not last night:)

Organized people have the time to forward EVERYTHING.

Amen Phoenix.

I never feel bad about deleting. I rarely forward unless I think an email is hilarious, maybe one a month.

Ceili- Me too, but I NEVER send the same joke to everybody. There is some humor that is appropriate for certain people that I know, and not others. I am always very careful not only to not offend, but to send jokes to people that I know they will enjoy.

Are you saying I'm dumb?