It boggles …

… my mind that people can not trim an email they are forwarding on, and that they don’t know how to BCC the email if they are sending it to MANY people. I receive many emails a day from friends (and in some cases from their friends/family) that has been forwarded to them. When they forward it on, they have a list for from 5 to 50 (ok, on average about 15) in the To: field that can take a bit of screen space up as you scroll down to get to the message. But when you go to get to the message, you have to scroll down through from one to fifteen headers of people forwarding it on until it finally reached the person that sent it to you. In many cases you get to see the message that they are forwarding two or more times embedded in the message, which takes up even more space on YOUR computer (be it your mail server, or if you are like me, you download all email to a client on your computer) especially if there are pictures involved.

How come people can’t BCC the To: field if there are more than a couple of people there? There is also a security reason to do so. I now have a, in many cases, LONG list of people that associate with you. I have their email address, and I can now sell their name to spammers, or even spam them myself… (Send it back to yourself, and BCC the rest of the people!)

Now that the To: field is has been moved to BCC field on these long To: messages, learn how to highlight the text from all the Forwarding, such as the “Headers” (That information that shows who sent the older messages and who they sent it to. I’ve seen some that I bothered to count all the To: addresses between all the forwarding. There were over 120 names in the body (and one sent to me) all added up. And in this case, one of the recipients received the email 9 times!!) and any dublicate message bodies that are embedded.

So, when I get it, I just see your name in the Header, my name, and ONE message, without a LOT of filler of who sent it to who before you got it and sent it to me. Doing this makes reading email all that easier in the end.

PLEASE?