Can I just add something to that: When you do forward these sort of e-mails, take the trouble to wipe off all the previous e-mail addresses, for the reason Colin has given. Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin Hinson" <Colin@Blunham.demon.co.uk> To: <eng-yks-bradford@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 9:27 AM Subject: [YKS-BRADFORD] [Fwd: FW: plz read n pass on x] > Susan, > I don't think there's a nice way of putting this, so I'll dive in at > the deep end! > > You don't send messages like this to mailing lists! I assume that > like 99.99% of people with email facilities that you don't like > receiving spam ? So: > 1. It's more than likely a hoax. Did you check to find out if it was > before you sent it or do you just believe what's written in messages > without question? > 2. If it's a hoax (or even if it isn't?), then it's spam and you sent > it to all of us. > 3. You included many many email addresses in the message, thus > creating an absolute goldmine for the spammers who use "robots" to > search the archives for email addresses. > 4. It's a chain letter! Regardless of the subject, bin it! > > Please, please think long and hard before you send messages such as > this one - it's just using up bandwith on the internet, and whatever > you do, don't send them to Mailing Lists ! > > Best wishes, > Colin Hinson > > In the village of Blunham in Bedfordshire U.K. > Webmaster for the Genuki Yorkshire pages: > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > Old and Rare Yorkshire Books on searchable CDroms: > http://cdroms.blunham.com/ > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-YKS-BRADFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.17/1178 - Release Date: > 08/12/2007 11:59 > >