Supersticious emails

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How has everyone handled friends who consistently innocently send
the type of emails that say something like “send this to x number of
people and you will be blessed” etc.
 
delete them. if this person sends nothing but this type of obnoxious mail report it as spam. I delete unread anything that has an attachment unless it is something I have requested from a known sender. this type of mail is illegal in US mail if it contains a threat of harm for not passing along the message, or if it asks for money. Don’t know what the rules are for email.
 
I do delete them.
How do you tactfully reply to the many naive people who send these
eg. former boss.
 
no need to reply, but if they get annoying (like one a week from this person) just tell him your practice is never to respond to such appeals and ask politely to be taken off his list.
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myrrh:
I do delete them.
How do you tactfully reply to the many naive people who send these
eg. former boss.
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I have a friend who sends tons of these - usually of the “if you really love Jesus, you’ll forward this to 10 people” variety. I thought about asking her to stop, but rather than risk hurting her feelings, I decided to just delete them without saying anything.
 
There is a young woman at my work who sends me these all the time. They’re usually lovely sentimenal bible quotes about blessings and love, etc., with a request that you send it to 10 or more people in order to receive a blessing. Like the poster above, I just quietly delete them rather than hurt her feelings.
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I’m lucky in this…I never get such chain emails. (If I did, I’d deleter them.)
 
I know, I don’t want to hurt their feelings either, but from listening
to Fr. Corapi, it seems we are obliged to correct those in error,
especially because they have never been taught and don’t know
any better.
for example they also send dozens of those “warning” emails,but
after I’ve double checked them on www.snopes.com and find out
they are false, in charity even if it hurts their feelings, I let them
know that (not on my say-so) but according to an authoritive
website , they’re not credible.
I guess I’m wondering if anyone has found an answer to this in
print.
 
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Reepicheep:
I’m lucky in this…I never get such chain emails. (If I did, I’d deleter them.)
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Same here (so far). If I did get one, I would report it as spam even if it was from a friend.

PF
 
Luckily, no one sends me such chain letters anymore. 😃 Everyone I know who does this usually reposts the message in a Myspace bulletin instead.
 
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maryalene:
I have a friend who sends tons of these - usually of the “if you really love Jesus, you’ll forward this to 10 people” variety. I thought about asking her to stop, but rather than risk hurting her feelings, I decided to just delete them without saying anything.
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that’s like feeding a stray cat, you will never get rid of it. Just send a reply to each of these persons saying you do not read or respond to such mail because it is against your religion (it is, being a superstition) so would they please take you off their list. No need for a long discussion or criticism. the only time I did go into more detail on the problems of such messages was with an RCIA candidate, because it was part of her education, but I did it off-line, in person. Your feelings are also deserving of respect.

on a similar note, I have many people who send out blanket mailings to everyone in their addressbook, and all their email addresses are listed above the message. I also ask every one who mails me to configure their e-mails to eliminate this listing, and not to pass along my address. If they do it again, I report the message as spam. I rarely get anything useful pertinent from these people anyhow.
 
I usually just delete them. I very rarely pass them on.

With many military moves, we have made friends from all over the world. Often the senders, in my experience, do not actually believe the supersitition associated with it - they are only trying to say hi but often just don’t have time to sit down to type a real message. Many times the blessing is just knowing there are others out there thinking of you.

For those messages that I feel may have false claims, I search www.truthorfiction.com and reply to all the link.
 
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ProudArmyWife:
Often the senders, in my experience, do not actually believe the supersitition associated with it - they are only trying to say hi but often just don’t have time to sit down to type a real message. Many times the blessing is just knowing there are others out there thinking of you.
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Exactly right. I have a friend who sends funny or sentimental ones all the time. She generally adds a disclaimer about not caring whether you send it on or not, because it is the sentiment of the story (or poem, or joke, etc) that she wishes to share with her friends. I don’t usually like getting junk email like that, but from this particular person it is ok, because I know she is just trying to say hello and keep in contact.
 
My husband got really bugged about a friend of mine who would send emails like this - he replied in an email to him to not send them anymore. So they have ceased.

I have another friend who would send these, but they’re mostly little sentiments. I like one of the ones she sent me and wanted to share it with others, but before I sent it out, I cut out the portions where it said “Send to so-n-so people and you will have good luck” and resent it as a plain message.
 
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JMJ_Pinoy:
Luckily, no one sends me such chain letters anymore. 😃 Everyone I know who does this usually reposts the message in a Myspace bulletin instead.
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lol It’s fascinating to me how all the annoying forward emails I used to get in middle and high school have moved to the myspace bulletins. I never even really look at them anymore.
 
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Tonks40:
I have another friend who would send these, but they’re mostly little sentiments. I like one of the ones she sent me and wanted to share it with others, but before I sent it out, I cut out the portions where it said “Send to so-n-so people and you will have good luck” and resent it as a plain message.
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That’s what I do.
 
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Karen1996:
That’s what I do.
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exactly! Why is this so hard for everyone? Crikey, it started a battle of sorts in my family – I think my uncle sent the “sieze the day, repair damaged relationships before it’s too late” type of email with the “if you don’t, a tree will fall on your house in the next 10min” – my SIL FIRED back at everyone on the listing – she went POSTAL on him…wrong on both of their parts, but cheeseandcrackers, all it would have taken would be for him to have deleted the crackpot part, ya know!!!

I delete 'em after checking the “meat” of the message…some good gems
 
I also forward without the endings. A lot of the info is good or inspirational so most people will forward it anyway.

Another pet peeve (?spelling?) is when people send me emails and it takes opening 5 or more attachments before I get to the message. (The most I had once was over 20 attachments!!) Is it that hard to just forward the last attachment? Outlook Express handles this quite easily. Are there some email programs that do not?
 
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