[BITList] Tips for e-mailing

[Malcolm]

                                                 Good Tips for e-mailing 

 

I have my doubts about SNOPES but the advice is good.. 



E-Mail Tracker Programs -- very interesting and a must read!




The man that sent this information is a computer tech.  He spends a lot of
time clearing the junk off computers for people and listens to complaints
about speed.  All forwards are not bad, just some.  Be sure you read the
very last paragraph. 

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 He wrote:

By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with  <http://snopes.com/>
snopes.comand/or  <http://truthorfiction.com/> truthorfiction.comfor
determining whether information received via email is just that:  true/false
or fact/fiction.  Both are excellent sites.


 

Advice from  <http://snopes.com/> snopes.com   VERY IMPORTANT!!


 

1) Any time you see an email that says "forward this on to '10' (or however
many) of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll get bad luck" or
"you'll get good luck" or "you'll see something funny on your screen after
you send it" or whatever --- it almost always has an email tracker program
attached that tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you forward to.
The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is
able to get lists of 'active' email addresses to use in SPAM emails or sell
to other Spammers.  Even when you get emails that demand you send the email
on if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus --- that is email tracking, and they
are playing on our conscience.  These people don't care how they get your
email addresses - just as long as they get them.  Also, emails that talk
about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease "how would you
feel if that was your child" --- email tracking.  Ignore them and don't
participate!


 

2) Almost all emails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others
are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business
cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of
Records for the most cards.  All it was, and all any of this type of email
is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for
telemarketers and Spammers -- to validate active email accounts for their
own profitablepurposes.


 

You can do your Friends and Family members a GREAT favor by sending this
information to them.  You will be providing a service to your friends.  And
you will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam emails in the future!


 Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of listing
regardless how inviting they might sound! Or make you feel guilty if you
don't! It's all about getting email addresses and nothing more.


 

You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT!


 

Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a
virus attached!  Plus, we are helping the Spammers get rich!  Let's not make
it easy for them!


 


 

And another important point is to delete all previous names from your emails
before forwarding!!! Send emails to your entire address list BCC then
everyone after you doesn't get your friend's email address.
 

Tips for Handling Telemarketers 

Three Little Words That Work!!
 
(1)The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...' 

Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off (instead of
hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing call so much more
time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind to a halt. 
 
Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep' tone, you
know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently
completed its task.
 
These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting. 
 
(2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the other end?


This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone calls and
records the time of day when a person answers the phone. 
 
This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a 'real' sales
person to call back and get someone at home. 
 
What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one there, is to
immediately start hitting your # button on the phone, 6 or 7 times as
quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that dialled the call, and it
kicks your number out of their system. Gosh, what a shame not to have your
name in their system any longer!!! 

(3) Junk Mail Help: 


When you get ads enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return these ads
with your payment. Let the sending companies throw their own junk mail away.

 
When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for everything from
credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type junk, do not throw away the
return envelope. 
 
Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It costs them
more than the regular postage, 'IF' and when they receive them back. 
 
It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was around 50
cents before the last increase and it is according to the weight. In that
case, why not get rid of some of your other junk mail and put it in these
cool little, postage-paid return envelopes. 

One of Andy Rooney's (60 minutes) ideas. 

Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send a pizza
coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that day, then just send
them their blank application back!


 

If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on anything
you send them.
 
You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to keep them
guessing! It still costs them 60 cents.
 
The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of their own
junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM them. Let's let them
know what it's like to get lots of junk mail, and best of all they're paying
for it...Twice! 
 
Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that e-mail is
cutting into their business profits, and that's why they need to increase
postage costs again. You get the idea!
 
If enough people follow these tips, it will work I have been doing this for
years, and I get very little junk mail anymore. 

THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS

 

 

No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com/
Version: 2013.0.2890 / Virus Database: 2638/6034 - Release Date: 01/15/13

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