Those darn >> Fwd >> symbols... What Don't People Understand???
I can't believe the emails that come in with multiple >>> symbols on each line. For example, LOOK at this.....would YOU want to read thru all that garbage?
>>>Specifically, the scammer asks for the victim's Social Security
>>>number, birth date, and sometimes even for credit card numbers and
>>>other private information -- exactly what the scammer needs to commit
>>>identity theft.
What is it that people don't understand about removing them before forwarding on the email? We are ALL busy... we ALL have better things to do... Are they all waiting for ME to do it? Like I don't have anything else to do with my day?! I am close to putting a RULE in my email which will block emails that have those darn things in them. I have politely asked for people to remove them before sending them on....it doesn't work! All it would take is fir ONE person to remove them, and then if people could learn to COPY & PASTE instead of using the darn FWD key... that's the ticket... we need all the email program companies to REMOVE the FWD options from email programs! That'd do it!
>>>Specifically, the scammer asks for the victim's Social Security
>>>number, birth date, and sometimes even for credit card numbers and
>>>other private information -- exactly what the scammer needs to commit
>>>identity theft.
What is it that people don't understand about removing them before forwarding on the email? We are ALL busy... we ALL have better things to do... Are they all waiting for ME to do it? Like I don't have anything else to do with my day?! I am close to putting a RULE in my email which will block emails that have those darn things in them. I have politely asked for people to remove them before sending them on....it doesn't work! All it would take is fir ONE person to remove them, and then if people could learn to COPY & PASTE instead of using the darn FWD key... that's the ticket... we need all the email program companies to REMOVE the FWD options from email programs! That'd do it!
posted by Ruth at
10:38 AM
2 Comments:
I hear ya. And it's not just the damned ">>>", it's also the addition of hard returns in the text. There's just way too much work involved in making the text usable. And yet some people seem to like it -- the "internet-style" options were added to Notes (which always handled replies and forwards sanely before) for version 6 by request. What kind of moron would actually request something like that?
Common sense is not very common, is it?
(Oh, by the way, you're going to want to go to the settings, comments tab, and select "Show word verification for comments". Otherwise you will start getting some pretty vile comment spam before too long. Sick doesn't begin to describe some of what gets posted by the robots.)
By
Stan Rogers, at 6:24 PM
Thanks Stan... got it on.
By
Ruth, at 8:46 AM
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