E Mail Rant

can I say LOL a little and I cannot find your email for nothing
good to rant sometimes :wink:

I hate getting some heartwarming message with instructions to forward it
to ten of my friends. Sorry folks. The love stops here.

my peeve is forward this missing kid one - i usually go find it;s false then reply to everyone possible they need to check things out before blindly forwarding

I have one friend who always believes urban legends, and sends them to everyone. After she sent me one, I E Mailed her a Snopes article that debunked what she had said. She got very insulted, and said that she didn't care about the Snopes article. BTW, I just got another one from her a few days ago. (The one about a person being warned in a gas station that someone went into her car). I started to Google "Snopes", but then figured, "Why bother"?

Another thing. If it is necessary to send out something to multiple addresses, why don't people send it bcc?

Well, I agree, Phoenix. I try and respond if I know the person, but once, an e-mail replicated itself forty times, and I had to stay up half the night getting rid of it.

Well, it wasn't your fault Letty, but how the hell did that happen?

What bugs me about email? Easy - my typical morning greeting of

Inbox: You have 549 New Messages

Believe me - I have "Notify on receipt of new message" turned off :wink:

Seriously, I do get a lot of email, to several email addresses, and there's a bunch I never see on top of that. I use a pretty good spamfilter which catches tons of the junk, and I have some sorting rules set up too; for instance, anything with more than 10 addresses in the "To" line or the word "forward" or the text strings "forward*", "fwd" or "fwd*" in the subject line goes into a folder set up for that stuff - about 99% of which are just the "joke of the day", "Urgent Warning! - My Freind Just Sent Me This News of a Horrible New Internet Threat" or "!!!!!!VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!! DON"T BREAK THIS CHAIN!!!!!!!!!", or the "You Won't Believe This!!!" varieties, and never get any further. Likewise, anything with an attachment goes into a separate folder which is set aside for that - and if I don't know the sender and expect the attachment, out it goes, too. Even then, I always virus/trojan/worm scan and general yuckware scan attachments before opening - a little more effort, yeah, but a helluva lot less inconvenient than repairing damage.

And while we're ranting, I hate email without subject lines.
And I hate it when someone replies to one of those so that the subject
line is

"Re: "

My aunt sends me multiple stupid jokes constantly. I'll easily get 6 emails at a time from her.

I'm in the same boat. Most of those "email" jokes are absolutely horrific. I usually don't even read them.

When I send out a mass email though, it's because it's something that's usually very twisted and not something you're going to get 18 times again in the next month. Like the slut test. I sent that out in an annoying, "everyone gets to see everyone's email address" fashion.

And I love pulling the snopes thing on people. I did that the other day.

I'm thinking of starting my own dumb email letter. Maybe I'll write about how if you don't masturbate at least twice today, your family will be killed. If you send this to 5 people, you'll live to see another day.

I should mention that nothin' with an empty subject line even gets to a folder ... if the sender doesn't wanna gimme a clue, the hell with the message.

I'm tired of the constant insinuations that my penis is small and on top of that I can't get it up..... that's a personal matter and I didn't ask for any help......

At the risk of sounding petty, my peeve is my family sending email photos. Dragging everyone around the computer for a look is just not the same as showing them a photo. I feel like a jerk if I delete them and since I'm never ever satisfied with computer prints I have to transfer the photos to photoshop and send them to the lab for processing if I actually want a copy of the image.

I call it the curse of the digital camera.

It is so much nicer to open a letter and find a photo enclosed.

Perhaps I put too much value on photos.

Phoenix, I don't know how it happened. I'm clueless about such things.

look on the bright side;

figure out what the last year of communication would have cost you if it had been in the form of posted letters!

[mind you, the little problem of 'memoirs' would be taken care of.]

boomerang- I don't think that you are being petty. If I get a picture in an E Mail, I figure that it is worth a two second look, and then I will hit the delete button. If I really love the picture, I will save it to a photo program, but I rarely print them.

fancy putting your soul into an envelope, adding a stamp, and sending it off!

Now, now Bi- don't be so defensive. I used to get those (until I blocked them). I figured that it had nothing to do with me. Are those ads hitting a nerve? :wink:

I dunno - lately I've been startin' to be a little insecure about my bust - and I'm startin' to feel left out, 'cause I have no mortage to refinance