Mass Email Forwards

Just a little tip from me to the few folks who stumble here on a regular and/or random basis.

If you're going to forward an email to everyone on your list, try the "BCC" or "blind carbon copy" function in your email program. And if someone forwards you an email with tons of email addresses listed at the top of the email, edit it slightly to remove all those addresses.

Why am I telling you this? Am I just being a grumpy gus cause I have a little bit of a headache and have a "girl's night out" to attend & I think the headache will reduce my pleasure at said girl's night?

No.**

Three reasons.
1. it does decrease the amount of junk on the email. We can scan it quickly if we don't have to see everyone's email.
2. Sometimes, all those mass addresses our spam filters do not recognize make your email pop into the spam folder. It could make it take a while for us to get that email.
3. SPAM!!! If you forward emails with lots of email addresses, all those friends and family's email addresses can be easily verified as "real" addresses if a spambot gets ahold of it. And then, we're all added to crap email lists.

So please. Do this. Use the "BCC" button. Thataway not everyone and everyone's half sister gets the email addresses of everyone you know. It's for our own good! Really!

**although I am a bit grumpy. Hang on PF Chang's, I'm gonna need a GOOD MARTINI. Could you get one ready for me?