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myLot reputation of 99/100. mimpi1911 (8086)   ranked 3 out of 15,090 in internet3 months ago

Even though, I have one or two issues with it, I would like to mention just one here. I don't really hate chain emails as much as I hate to find them coming with unguarded email addresses of the forwardees. How can we be so careless NOT to use the BCC!! I think we should hide the privacy of the email addresses of the chain emails consciously.

What is your pet peeve?

 
 
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tags:  spam, scams, email, server, religious
 
1. myLot reputation of 78/100. adam1980 (453)   ranked 6,069 out of 15,090 in internet   3 months ago

virgin media who provide my internet service provide my main mail adress to me too, they dont have a junk box so i have to sift through all the emails each day to find the ones that are junk and the ones that are important to me, i think by now all email providers should have worked out we need a spam box for our junk,


myLot reputation of 99/100. mimpi1911 (8086)   ranked 3 out of 15,090 in internet  3 months ago

Don't the have it!!! It must be heck of a problem to sort out the mails manually!
How do ya manage?


myLot reputation of 78/100. adam1980 (453)   ranked 6,069 out of 15,090 in internet  3 months ago

i have started to use a yahoo mail adress instead as this is way easier that trawling through the junk every day


myLot reputation of 99/100. mimpi1911 (8086)   ranked 3 out of 15,090 in internet  3 months ago

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liangwan (3)  3 months ago

good idear

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2. myLot reputation of 93/100. aslanlight (1573)   ranked 1,889 out of 15,090 in internet   3 months ago

What's the BCC? Does it hide email addresses? I rarely send emails to more than one person but when I do I'd like to hide the addresses, just didn't know how to do it!

My pet peeve is everything with my email server. It goes wrong all the time but I have so many contacts in it and I can't move them over to another server because it's not a popular one like gmail etc. So I just stay with it and get irritated! angry


myLot reputation of 99/100. mimpi1911 (8086)   ranked 3 out of 15,090 in internet  3 months ago

BCC is the blind carbon copy that allows you to send the same emails to many without letting others know the other addresses. The chain forwarded emails come with so many forwarded messages with blatant email ID exposures. I think this should be taken care of.

Bad servers could be nightmares and i face it many times. Can't help!


myLot reputation of 93/100. aslanlight (1573)   ranked 1,889 out of 15,090 in internet  3 months ago

Thanks, I'll have to find out if my emails have BCC and how to use it.

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3. myLot reputation of 85/100. Hatley (20508)   ranked 374 out of 15,090 in internet   3 months ago

hi mimpi I hate allthe thousands of scams where I just need to send a hundred or two hundred to pick up my sweepstakes winninging of millions of dollars or the ones which tell me that a person is
'dying of cancer and needs to send me a zillion dollars to'
use for charitable efforts and I am to keep so many million. give me
a break from scams.


myLot reputation of 99/100. mimpi1911 (8086)   ranked 3 out of 15,090 in internet  3 months ago

hahaha..i know what you mean! But who will make them understand that we do not fall for stuffs like Microsoft giving out money or we do not cater to Nigerian scams anymore!! Isn't there snopes.com to take care of it!


myLot reputation of 60/100. purplelilac (155)   ranked 9,187 out of 15,090 in internet  3 months ago

I hate all the spam that we are sent. Even with filters I find a lot gets through. Many are for scams too like the ones you mentioned. It makes it hard to sort through the mail.

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4. myLot reputation of 95/100. drannhh (7372)   ranked 1,942 out of 15,090 in internet   3 months ago

That would be the top one, and then those that dissemination stupidly false information such as Amber Alert HOAXES. The other one I find annoying is so-called humorous content about gray hair and wrinkles and aches and pains as though these were normal conditions of life that everyone shares. I guess someday I will have a lot of wrinkles, but I hope not to regard them as an infirmity, but as a sign of character. I will have earned every one of them. I eat right and exercise and have a positive outlook on life and thus consider the negativity of self-deprecation not only a waste of time, but counter productive. Some of my friends mindlessly forward those e-mails and it makes me wonder why I don't just send their e-mail addies to the spam filter and write them off as friends.

I have been working with computers for over 30 years now, and I have never ever sent anyone a chain mail, nor do I ever intend to.

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5. myLot reputation of 84/100. AniruS (147)   ranked 2,116 out of 15,090 in internet   3 months ago

I hate chain emails very much and particularly those which says that if you do not send it to few number of people then you will get bad luck. How can people believe in such emails!! And why do people start these emails, just to spam email boxes.

There are very few people who I know use BCC option when sending out blanket emails to their friend list. I hope more and more people start using the BCC option.

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6. myLot reputation of 98/100. mentalward (4245)   ranked 9 out of 15,090 in internet   3 months ago

I can't stand that, either. I always use the BCC when sending emails to more than one person.

But, I have to say that my biggest peeve with emails is when I get religious emails that tell me I must forward them to whatever amount of people in a specific amount of time in order to receive a miracle. I didn't know that God wanted us to forward emails to receive a miracle; that forwarding was a prerequisite for a miracle.

No, they really get on my nerves. Receiving religious messages is fine. I don't mind them at all. But, when they tell me that I MUST forward them, that's where I draw the line and just delete them.

I've tried to explain this to some people who send me these "get a miracle if you forward" emails. Some just stopped sending those kinds. Some still do send them. One person stopped writing to me altogether! It doesn't make sense to me. All I asked was for them to please not send me emails that tell me I MUST forward them to 10 people within 10 minutes to receive a miracle. That's so bogus!

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7. myLot reputation of 96/100. alokn99 (2913)   ranked 748 out of 15,090 in internet   3 months ago

Chain mails for one, which are repeatedly forwarded by many people in the same network or group.
Then there are some users especially at work who don't use the email properly. There were instances of simple information sent to dozens of people which do need a reply. But some in their over enthusiasm or ignorance choose to " Reply all".
Spams is another which get to me. I report them, set the spam filters, and in a few days the same message from a different id.

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8. myLot reputation of 100/100. JenInTN (3576)   ranked 396 out of 15,090 in internet   3 months ago

That is a peeve of mine too. I have actually talked to some of my friends that forward these things and they don't even realize how to use the BCC. I don't get them much anymore because I never send them on or reply to them. I usually just erase them before opening it.

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9. myLot reputation of 96/100. bjcyrix (2806)   ranked 1,683 out of 15,090 in internet   3 months ago

Oh yeah, that one. And those forwarded email messages that wishes to bring in some sort of "suspense" to the whole thing, inserting too many spaces in between the paragraphs so the readers would be forced to scroll all the way down. I really do not like that. Guess Im just too impatient for it that I ultimately just delete the message or move on to the next message rather than move the scroll bar down. doh

Ahm, this might be a stupid question but what really is the "BCC" for? I sometimes used it when I sent something to a lot of people but I really did not know what it was for. ninja

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10. myLot reputation of 98/100. cbeee3 (843)   ranked 2,044 out of 15,090 in internet   3 months ago

I can't understand the carelessness behind not using BCC too! Apart from that I hate the, "Send this mail to 10 people, else all hell will break loose in your life" emails too. Ughhh.. doh
I also hate forwards that are really really long. I don't have the patience to read them so more often then not, they land in the Trash. Sorry people, who send me those mails. surrender..lol

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