What is your email pet peeves?

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,

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.

Hi dear! I fully agree with you that while forwarding mails in bulk to our friends/near and dear ones, we should keep the privacy of others intact. Normally, I do not type all the email addressess simultaneously and if I want it to send to more than one friends, I send them one by one. I value each one's privacy and till I am sure that my friends know each other and they would be having each other's email ID, I do not send chain mails. Have a great day! Deepak

my pet peeves are people that think they can make a quick buck off me and try to play me for a sucker! i have seen shows on these people that 'work' in African countries who try to play on my sympathies. they have made thousands from people who are not as syncial as i.

hi mimpi, i could not understand what you have put in this discussion that made me curiosity to respond to this discussion,i could not understand about this discussion,could you please.....have a nice day

I hate spammers and scammers on my mailbox for obvious reasons but one thing I hate the most is forwarded emails which are obviously hoax and those who targets specific races. I also hate it when the people who forward them to me are those who are too busy to send me a simple hi on the email and then here they come forwarding such obvious hoax and even email treats.

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.

My pet peeve is the emails entitled 'Congratulations' I do a lot of competitions online and so when I see this title it builds my hopes up because I think I have won something through entering the competitions and when I open it up it's a scam/spam email. They do this on purpose and it's so annoying, you try to filter them into trash but this doesn't always work. Some worded emails are crafty and they can eaily catch you out.

Chain emails get on my nerves. I delete them whenever I get them because they usually have no purpose, but to waste time. I agree that BCC needs to be utilized more so that way if someone does not want their email getting out then it will not and it respects their privacy.

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. 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.

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!

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.

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.. 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...lol

i really really hate whenever i sign up for something i get 100 spam emails. The spam blocker only filters like half of it its really annoying I have to create new gmail account because my primary is so flooded with spam i can't even read the important ones. Plus some dangerous emails forward themselves to all my friends and that gets everyone pissed.

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.

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.