Email Courtesy

When sending email to all your friends, why not follow these simple rules of email courtesy:

1.	Remove all the forwarding message from previous emails. If the email is important enough for you to send it to someone else, it's important enough for you to take the few seconds to remove all the junk and only send the message. Just highlight the section you want to omit and hit the deleted key. It's that easy.
2.	Use the BCC block and not the "To" nor the "CC" to send mass emails. Using the BCC keeps everyone from seeing any other email address. It's not your address, it's their email address, and unless you have their permission to broadcast it all over the place, why not keep it to yourself? Also, there are some viruses that will see incoming email addresses on emails and use them in the broadcast list. For certain, NEVER post anyone's email address to any web page unless you have their explicit permission. Most of these sites are just gathering email addresses to sell to Spammers.
3.	Don't forward hoax emails. There is no email tracking program where some company is going to pay anyone for the number of emails sent out. If there is an unknown virus, you should probably tell the anti-virus software companies so they can update their information to protect everybody. And sending out emails to many people will not bring you luck regardless of what the email says, it will probably just annoy some people and could bring you bad feelings.

These are just a few things that if everyone followed, we'd have a much better email environment.