Are You Contributing to the Junk Email Problem? Probably – What is acai berry
Posted: June 18, 2010 at 1:50 am
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Today, we all get and send email just as much and as easily as we use the telephone. In fact, email is sometimes more preferred that using a phone, even a cell phone. It’s easy to do (especially if you’re a fast typist) and provides the opportunity to really think through something you want to say, as opposed to spontaneous conversation.
And how we love to forward emails that we get! You know – those cute, funny, touching, or just provocative emails that we’re sure everyone in our Address Book or Contact List would enjoy just as much you we did.
Did you know that because you and I do this, we are contributing to receiving more and more unwanted emails? We may actually be perpetuating this.
Have you ever heard of chain letters or viral advertising? They work because of the beauty of their exponential factor. You see we forward that funny email to, lets say, ten of our friends (to make the math easy). Then each of those ten people forward the same email on to ten of their friends (up to 100 recipients now). And each of those hundred people now forward it to ten of their friends.
You see, just after three iterations of forwarding emails, 1,000 people have received that email you or I thought was “funny.” (Maybe some of those recipients thought it was funny – maybe not. But, that’s another topic in itself.)
The goal of this article is to help each of these future recipients to understand what can and does occur when we decide to pass along a funny or touching email. Not that we shouldn’t; just what happens when we do this the way that most people do it.
You’ll know what I’m going to talk about shortly, if you think back of the last one of this kind of email you received from a friend. They have a distinct characteristic that makes them very obvious.
At the top of the email you see something dozens, if not hundreds of email addresses of everyone your friend emailed the message to. Most of the time, you get to see all the email addresses of the first or second (or more) iterations of the friend that sent the email to your friend. Have you ever found yourself scrolling down forever and ever past all those email addresses, until you finally find the actual email?
That’s what I want to focus on. You see, sending or forwarding the actual email if fine and well. The problem comes when you forward a multiple iteration email to all your friends with all those email addresses imbedded in them.
>>> Original Messager
>>> From: blahblah @ blah.comr
>>> To: Joe Smith , Jean What is acai berry r
>>> Rick Michaels , Jimmy Daltonr
>>>, Carol Snodgrass ,r
>>> Hannah Milton , James Reynoldsr
>>>>> Subject: My funny email
>>> I know you’ll love this email. It’s great
>> Original Message –r
>> From: blahblah @ blah.comr
>> To: Jason Smith , Jean Bea r
>> Rick Jetson , Brad Digget,r
>> Jason McGee, Hal Lynch ,r
>> Subject: My funny email
>> This is so funny. It brought tears to my eyes laughing.
> Original Messager
> From: blahblah @ blah.comr
> To: Gretta Stanton , Jan Rickr
> Billy Delp , Linus Beal,r
> Mellisa Hall , Jim Welch ,r
> Subject: My funny email
This is a funny email
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