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Day 51 - Junk (E)Mail
Feb. 20th, 2010 08:25 pmThe similarities between Junk Mail and Junk Email are self evident. They're both unsolicited. They're both unwanted. They both fill up their respective containers. However, there is one type of Junk Email that is different from the rest and it is this kind that annoys me to no end. I'm talking about the Fwds.
I have two major beefs about Fwds. One is the fact that 99.99% of the people who forward these emails on do not delete the previous addresses. I can think of NO EASIER way to compromise someone's email address than to hit forward and send it to a zillion other people that don't know each other. My other beef is this. If you have my email address, I presume that you must know me in some fashion or the other. If you know me and I know you, I'd hazard a guess and say that we are on speaking terms. If we are on speaking terms I would further conclude that I might like to hear how things are going with you on occasion. Here in lies my problem.
PEOPLE FORWARD THESE ANNOYING EMAILS WITHOUT EVEN BOTHERING SAY HI OR HOW ARE YOU! That's the thing I find most annoying about these mails. Usually they're not annoying in of themselves. It's the fact that you can't take ten extra seconds and type in a salutation along with the eleventy thousand email addresses I now have record of. If you can't be bothered to email me a friendly hello, stop sending me junk. My favourites are the ones that imply if you don't send them on or back to the person that sent them, you're a horrible no good person with no friends and nobody who loves you.
If it gets me an uncluttered inbox, I'm willing to be that person.
I have two major beefs about Fwds. One is the fact that 99.99% of the people who forward these emails on do not delete the previous addresses. I can think of NO EASIER way to compromise someone's email address than to hit forward and send it to a zillion other people that don't know each other. My other beef is this. If you have my email address, I presume that you must know me in some fashion or the other. If you know me and I know you, I'd hazard a guess and say that we are on speaking terms. If we are on speaking terms I would further conclude that I might like to hear how things are going with you on occasion. Here in lies my problem.
PEOPLE FORWARD THESE ANNOYING EMAILS WITHOUT EVEN BOTHERING SAY HI OR HOW ARE YOU! That's the thing I find most annoying about these mails. Usually they're not annoying in of themselves. It's the fact that you can't take ten extra seconds and type in a salutation along with the eleventy thousand email addresses I now have record of. If you can't be bothered to email me a friendly hello, stop sending me junk. My favourites are the ones that imply if you don't send them on or back to the person that sent them, you're a horrible no good person with no friends and nobody who loves you.
If it gets me an uncluttered inbox, I'm willing to be that person.
