Tuesday Computer Group
Editing e-mail
E-mail is a fantastic way of communicating. This is a
great way to keep in contact with family and friends.
There is one VERY important thing to remember when it comes
to passing on a message that you think would be of interest to a family member
or friend.
That important thing is this: DO NOT CLICK FORWARD. Locate the portion of the
message that contains the part you want to pass on. This part of the message may
only be three or four lines or six paragraphs. Select this portion, right click
it and choose COPY. Open a new message and address it to who
you want to send it to along with an appropriate subject. Right click the
message area of the new message and choose PASTE. The part you want to send on
is now shown in the new message. then send the message. If you are sending this copied message
to a group of recipients that number more than
three then use "Blind Carbon Copy" not in the "To" section.
Using blind carbon copy reduces greatly from those multiple addresses from being
picked up by "Web Bots" that harvest emails sent to multiple addresses.
By sending a portion of an email that you thought would be of
interest to someone else you accomplished the
following: Eliminated all those email addresses who have forwarded
the message. If the message was forwarded numerous times those addresses would
look something like the following:
-----
Original Message -----
From:
DENNIS DYKE
To:
Tim Stilwell ;
Rick Cunningham ;
Pam Kane ;
Jim Coburn ;
Con Dyke ;
Cheri Velliky ;
Charlotte Liddicoat ;
Bob Peri ;
Betty Colorado
Sent:
Saturday, August 04, 2007 9:02 PM
Subject: Fw: Giving
100%
-----
Original Message -----
From:
Estrada, Barbara
To:
Fitzgerald, Aimee ;
Moennig, Beverly ;
Waldrop, Bob ;
engprofmarvyn@aol.com ;
Lakey, Cindy ;
Williamson, Cindy ;
Stalder, Diane ;
Healy, Dorothy ;
emize@archerengineers.com ;
Ruckert, Ellen ;
Estrada, Gabe ;
Gabriel Estrada ;
Swanson, Jean ;
Stallons, Jennifer ;
Jlgreen48@hotmail.com ;
Estrada, Julie ;
Smith, Kathy ;
Wyatt, Kathy ;
Moore, Marla ;
Robinson, Martha (work) ;
Creager, Maure (Work) ;
Megan Hennkens ;
Ferguson, Merrie ;
Calhoun, Nan ;
Smith, Sandy ;
rlusignan@earthlink.net ;
Whitehill, Susan ;
LaJoie, Terri
Sent:
Friday, August 03, 2007 9:55 AM
Subject: Giving 100%
Another aspect of this e-mail clean up is to remove all
those annoying greater than or less than symbols < & >
this is a topic of another section of the TIPS page.
This page updated September 17, 2008