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Fri 11 Mar, 2005 06:54 am
Dear Sister-in-law, and anyone else to whom this applies,
For the last couple of years, apparently your mission in life is to spread, to half the immediate world, via the E Mail function on your computer, a plethora of the corniest jokes, unsubstantiated rumors, news stories that everyone has seen already, and other assorted idiocies.
You are lovely person, intelligent and well educated. But something happens when you hit that keyboard. At that time, all judgment and taste appear to flee your brain.
The first clue is when I see that you have sent this same E Mail to various and sundry people. My first reaction is that you really have not given it much thought as to whether each person would enjoy your missive. If a name is in your address book, that person is the recipient of the E Mail, no matter what his/her age, race, religion, gender, marital status, or political persuasion. Apparently, you have a one-size-fits-all mentality when it comes to your E Mails.
I really don't appreciate it, when I see my name, with my E Mail address, in a list, where someone that I don't know will have access to it. Call me paranoid, but I prefer disseminating that information myself.
I also do not want to see a copy of your son's report card. I know that you think that he is the greatest genius since Einstein, but you are not in court, and don't have to prove it to me. I'll make my own evaluation! 
And now, for my biggest gripe.............................. E Mail attachments. I have mentioned time and time again, that I do not open E Mail attachments. It is too much of a bother to scan them for viruses, and I don't want to take the time. I don't care if you are my sister-in-law, and would never do anything to harm me. Anything that comes to me with a "clip" on the side of the page is suspect. Also, I think that it is about time that you learned how to copy and paste. It really is a very handy skill, and people will appreciate it.
It really IS a shame when you go to the time and trouble to compose your E Mails, only to have me hit the "delete" button, without having even looked at what you sent. I used to feel terrible about doing this, but it happens so often, that I am used to blowing your messages away.
Thanks for listening,
Love,
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.....
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.
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.
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