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Are you being spammed by your friends?
Either my friends' account are being hacked into zombie computer or they are obviously devoted themselves into a spammer, but nowadays all I see in my inbox are just bunch of email from friends which is not truly email, but forwaded message containing some unusual stuff, well you know, sort things like that.
Even though the content of their emails is not as irking as spams, but they are still annoying. Just imagine you have 50 messages begin with FW: and not any of them containing real email. The bad thing is we cant label our friends' email as spam since it will block their email address from sending us another emails. Do you experience the same with me? Did you tell your friends to stop emailing you these forwarded message? I'm thinking to mail them back and telling me to stop sending me one. How ya doing, buddy?
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I used to get a lot of those from friends.
Then I decided to reply to all of them with scathing emails of my own. I think it got the effect I wanted, since there was a noticable trend amongst all of my friends of decreased FW traffic. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
I get random spams from people I don't know. My friends know enough to keep outta trouble and my family is too scared to do anything other than e-mail.
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.
Dekoa's Friend Quote: "You can't rape the Willing!"
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I have a woman who constantly sends me things. I mean, all these forwarded items--chain letters, what have you. I don't think I've ever received a letter from her at all.
And, ironically, someone on he e-mail list sent me something one time, and all I did was send an e-mail saying: "Who are you, and why are you spamming me?" I need to block these things..... I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
I have one friend who sends me such things every so often. I usually just delete the stuff, since it's just her, it's not too overwhelming.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
Friends, Colleagues. There all at it. And just as bad as one another.
I generally have a quick scan through the email to see if it is anything interesting, but more often than not it is just spam. Most of the emails that i receive as FW: just get deleted without ever being read. I also tend to get the same spam emails from colleagues and friends, so I get all of it twice. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
...y'know, I got one GOOD forward about forwards one from a friend, so if you want to spam your friends with that, go for it.
Spoiler:
FELIPE NO |
I barely have it happen to me at all. If I ever do get a FW: email from anyobody I know. I simply send a small email requesting for them to stop. For the most part, everyone complies after one warning.
My aunt, on the other hand, is a repeat offender, I made sure to tell her that I changed my email address and gave her my spam address. Problem solved. What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Most of my friends send me chain letters and other forwarded stuff. I emailed some of them back (because they did it so often), saying for them to please not send useless forwards anymore.
I haven't gotten anything from them.... Actually, I haven't talked to them since then... There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Banned |
Some guy I don't know keeps sending me emails that I should be his friend at Bebo.com. What, the fact that I ignored all 12 of those didn't get into your head yet?
I also have a friend who has a school classmate that sends me emails from time to time, and also birthday reminders (today is her birthday). Uhh, okay, this is the internet. I don't care for a birthday of some chick I don't know. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
I get the feeling people don't check their address books and love to click "send all". Some of my old "friends" (more like distant acquaintances) commonly email me, but if they ever see me in person, they don't acknowledge me :S
Also I added certain people on MSN by mistake but deleted them quickly afterwards, and now they are sending me stuff like WAYN and Ringo, and whatnot, when I've never even contacted them once. Of course I mean to ask my friends about why they send others stuff that is obviously spam, but I always forget to since it's always a trivial matter. I don't quite care for chain letters and tags, and sometimes the messages occassionally full of "<<>>><><<><<><<><><><>>>><<<><"s and no actual content whatsoever. I try looking for at least a FW: part, but there's none sometimes. Most amazing jew boots |
My filter is set up to discard anything that's just a forward. It's also set up to discard a whole bunch of other kinds of mail that I don't like to receive. I don't report these messages as spam, I just never see them, because they are deleted unless they contain actual content.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
My friend composed a number of witty, and hilarious counter FWDs that he would send back to the offenders promptly, and quickly. It was quite funny to hear some of the reactions, as many of the offenders went to our school. I thought i had saved a few, but turns out i was wrong. I'll keep looking, maybe i'll find them in my inbox. I have some wickedly old emails in there.
EDIT: Oh snap, i found one. grade 9 hilarity:
What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?
Last edited by Helloween; Oct 10, 2006 at 09:36 PM.
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I get about 5 unwanted newsletters a week from these retards who think I need to take relationship quizzes and "spice up my love life" or "please my man" better. Pretty rediculous.
FELIPE NO |
Here's one way of response i liked :
http://www.freewebs.com/thunderseal/chainmail1.htm From my brother's site www.mosab.co.nr What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |