I receive many interesting, humorous, anger-inducing, and touching emails from well-meaning friends. Quite often, I pass them along to others for their enlightenment or enjoyment—in some cases AFTER checking the facts with Snopes.com to be sure whatever the message states is true.
But dear friends, please consider that it takes only 10-15 seconds to highlight and DELETE the normally l-o-o-o-n-g list of who sent the message to you, who they got it from and who that person sent it to, who they got it from and forwarded it to, and on and on, ad infinitum!
Please...don't make me scroll down through 10, 15 or more FROM/TO/SUBJECT headers to get to the meat of the message...I don't care where the thing has been! In addition, I'll bet John Jones, Insurance Adjuster, Lotsa-Money Insurance in Kansas City, Missouri (the guy at the bottom of the list) doesn't want 127 other people to know HE is the one that got that message rolling along through cyberspace!
There, end of rant. I just had to get that off my chest and I feel so much better for it. Whew!
Of course, now no one will dare include me when passing along one of these messages! Oh well, that's the price one has to pay for being an old fart and speaking their mind, eh?
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