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post #1 of 6
4/4/11 at 12:53pm
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You know when you get a cute joke and want to pass it on but when you do fwd. it, the email is way off and it doesn't show the whole email. There are lines going down the left side of it and it throws the whole think off and the right side is cut off. Is there a way to get the email in the middle where it is supposed to be. Thanks.
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post #2 of 6
4/4/11 at 1:49pm
An excellent way to put yourself at risk for a virus is to send "forward" emails. Why? Well, let's say that you received an email from someone who had sent it to 20 people. She not only sent the email to 20 people, but she also sent your email address to them too. Now if each of those 20 people clicked "FORWARD" and sent that email off to 20 people each, that means your email was sent off to a whopping 400 strangers all within seconds.

Many people do not delete their sent or deleted emails, which means that emails remain within your email program and on your computer. Also, some have their emails set to add email address from received emails, to their address book automatically.

All it takes is one infected computer in that chain of forwarded emails to be infected. The virus on the infected computer looks to the sent, deleted, draft and address book for email address and "spoofs" an email and sends it out automatically without the person even being aware of it being done.
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post #3 of 6
4/4/11 at 2:00pm
The easiest way is to copy the text and paste it into a new email. That way you're sending only the part you want, and you haven't sent anyone else's email address to your friends.
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post #4 of 6
4/4/11 at 4:07pm
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Originally Posted by Natalie_ca View Post
An excellent way to put yourself at risk for a virus is to send "forward" emails. Why? Well, let's say that you received an email from someone who had sent it to 20 people. She not only sent the email to 20 people, but she also sent your email address to them too. Now if each of those 20 people clicked "FORWARD" and sent that email off to 20 people each, that means your email was sent off to a whopping 400 strangers all within seconds.

Many people do not delete their sent or deleted emails, which means that emails remain within your email program and on your computer. Also, some have their emails set to add email address from received emails, to their address book automatically.

All it takes is one infected computer in that chain of forwarded emails to be infected. The virus on the infected computer looks to the sent, deleted, draft and address book for email address and "spoofs" an email and sends it out automatically without the person even being aware of it being done.
I always send any fwd.'s by BCC so no one's emails are shown at all. I thought this was a safe way to keep all emails from being seen.
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post #5 of 6
4/4/11 at 4:09pm
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Originally Posted by GoldyCat View Post
The easiest way is to copy the text and paste it into a new email. That way you're sending only the part you want, and you haven't sent anyone else's email address to your friends.
As I said above, I always use BCC so no email addresses are shown plus I always delete any that are shown in the emails I receive. Some folks don't delete other email addresses before fwd. but I always do.
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post #6 of 6
4/15/11 at 3:07am
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Originally Posted by LaRussa View Post
You know when you get a cute joke and want to pass it on but when you do fwd. it, the email is way off and it doesn't show the whole email. There are lines going down the left side of it and it throws the whole think off and the right side is cut off. Is there a way to get the email in the middle where it is supposed to be. Thanks.
I think that you mean that the email has been forwarded so many times & each time it is forwarded, the email program indents the text. So you have it intended so many times that you can hardly see the original message.

You have 2 options:

1. Delete the email & get rid of at least one viral email chain that's being wasting bandwidth for the past 10 years.

2. Make you own new viral email by copy & pasting the required text into a new mail & sending it out fresh. Send it to yourself & BCC the recipients.
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