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How To Forward Emails Safely

One of the few very practical e-mails that are useful to ALL of us.

From a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that *ABSOLUTELY* applies to *ALL* of us who send e-mails.

Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% *DO NOT*.

Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses and names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps.

Try the following if you haven't done it before:

(1) *When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses
that appear in the body of the message (at the top). *That's
right, *DELETE* them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace
them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a
second. You *MUST *click the "Forward" button first and then you
will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of
the message. If you don't click on "Forward" first, you won't be
able to edit the message at all.

(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT
use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail addresses. *Always use
the BCC:(blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses.
* This is the way the people you send to will only see their...

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