email forwards.

Canada
January 15, 2007 12:58pm CST
Who else out there finds these things completely annoying? Do my friends just collect my email address JUST for this sort of thing? I can tell people until I am blue in the face to not send me these silly email forwards and do they listen, NO! I mean some of them don't even forward properly, and some of them are just, text with no meaning. For those of you who are sick to death of email forwards, use this discussion to rant , rave, and TELL those who send them to you, to stop doing it! I have better things to look at in my email inbox, than these silly email forwards!
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• United States
15 Jan 07
I hate all the forwards that I get. I have a business, and it mixes up with my customers emails. I don't mind a few, but I can get over 100 a day. They slow the machine down as they are downloading, you can get a virus, and I don't even like most of them. I have asked people not to do it, but they don't listen. Most of the time lately, I just delete them.
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@Marie2473 (8512)
• Sweden
15 Jan 07
I just hate them . I dislike them so much that i have even told some friends that just wont stop that if they don´t i will just block them. I hate going into my inbox only to find 10 FW emails. I never forward them since´i never even read them.
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
15 Jan 07
i hate them and transfer them unread direct to the round filing cabinet
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@pelya178 (693)
• United States
16 Jan 07
i HATE THEM!!! i tell my gf stop sending me those things but she still does n i delete them w/o reading them lol unless she says U HAVEEE TO READ THISSS lol
@Manickan (23)
• United States
16 Jan 07
I hate most of such forwards. But when i was really bored and have nothing to do i like to read such forwards. Especially the ones with creative images.
• Ireland
16 Jan 07
I agree they are so annoying!! I don't even bother reading them. I've told my family that I would prefer an email with something as simple as 'how are you?', but nobody seems to get it.
@scorpius (1792)
• India
16 Jan 07
i just about hate them so much that whenever i think of suchy emails i end up having a very bitter taste in my mouth.i think that they are very stupid and whats more i especially hare all those good luck chain emails.first we used to get them by normal mails but now it has come to this as well.i pretty much delete them the minute they land in my inbox!there was even a discussion here where someone had posted a chain email as a part of a discussion!can you believe that!!!
@brimia (6581)
• United States
16 Jan 07
Yes, I've suffered through the same annoying "forwards". I think some people have nothing better to do. The emails are almost always something useless and stupid too. I won't respond 99% of the time so they'll often get the message.
• United States
16 Jan 07
I too can't stand email forwards. What is more annoying though is when people post that nonsense to here... Fodder for their pennies... Or their "I just won the UK blah blah Internet Lotto" or someone in Nigeria wants me to help them transfer 8 gazillion $$ and they will let me keep 22.22%. Oh, wow, really... for the 9th year in a row bill gates and AOL are doing testing an email tracking program and will pay everyone $$ for each person you forward it to. I better spam the world (oops mean share this great deal)... Oh, and I'll try not to rant about the fools who believe everything they read in those things (like all the boycott this that and the other). It's called Snopes people. Check out the story before you play spammer and press the Forward button. BLAH! Just because you trust your grandma and she sent it to you doesn't mean it was a load of crap to begin with...
@patootie (3592)
16 Jan 07
I absolutely hate, loathe and detest them and never, ever bother to read them ... Strangely I only ever seem to get them from my American friends .. it's not something we seem to do very much here in the UK .. and why oh why do they always leave ever single email address showing .. if I do get any of these stupid forward spam emails I can pretty much guarantee that email address will be spammed within hours of the email going out .. In fact it's become such a problem that I now use a special email address for my American destination emails .. just to keep the spam out of my 'proper' email boxes .. I really don't want to know about angels, cute puppies, the homeless, chain letters, magic spells etc etc etc ... in fact all my email services are set up to put any 'forwarded' emails into a seperate box ... from where they can be deleted forthwith unread .. It's also the kind of mail that is most likely to have viruses inserted into it by some of the more unscrupulous folks .. so be warned ... it may be from a friend but make sure you virus scan it first ...
@cuddleme01 (2725)
• Philippines
16 Jan 07
i don't like some of the forwarded messages as well. some are just nonsense and they flood my mailbox.
• United States
16 Jan 07
I don't mind some forwards, but it seems like people send me the same ones 5 or more times. I mean some of them are funny and brighten my day and then some I've read so many times, I can probably tell the story by heart lol.
• United States
16 Jan 07
Im not a fan of forwarding either. I have a relative that only sends me forwards and I cant stand it. There are some that are worth while, but most I just delete, especially the ones that say something bad will happen to you if you dont forward to 20 people or some garbage like that. Send me a real freekin email none of this junk. Best of luck to you!
@mishald (176)
• India
16 Jan 07
i hate them so much i just delete hem immediately and if im really pissed off i return them to the sender
@dexter5 (297)
• India
16 Jan 07
well maybe you find it annoying , but i have awsome friend who don't send me any crap, i love all the mails i get,. i get a few from unknown ppl but i just delete them
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
16 Jan 07
I always press the delete button for chain emails.
@freesoul (3021)
• Egypt
16 Jan 07
I have the same problem, I don't know why people forward things to their whole address book never thinking who wants to receive it and who doesn't. I delete most without reading. when I want to forward something I only forward it to the ones I know they are interested about the subject, I send different forwards to different friends and never just send it to everyone. the thing i hate the most are those karma or luck things to forward to 10 or 20 people , etc. I never forwarded any of these chain letters and I hate people who send them no matter how many times you tells them not to.
@circuit (347)
• Pakistan
16 Jan 07
yea most of the times i hate email farwards but sometimez coool
@shaz6611 (951)
• Australia
16 Jan 07
I think there should be an option where forwards automatically go in the junk pile. Any software developers take note