Dear Prabhakar,
Thank you.
You've simultaneously made me feel guilty too, for reasons of perhaps wondering why I have not responded to you with similar appreciation over the dozens of forwards that you keep sending.
If u do not misunderstand, and if I may, I would like to make a small confession, observation, and suggestion.....
Almost 100% of your 'forwards'.... each one of them 'great ones' for sure.... I am constrained to welcome right away with the 'delete' button for two reasons:
i) ...for the clutter accompanying them - in the form of telescoping garbage of 'comets' consisting of email addresses and accompanying muck from the previous forwards in the same chain.....
A long time ago a computer knowledgeable advised me on "internet protocol and email etiquette". He told me, "If you respect and value the recipient of your 'email' or your 'forward'. take care not to clutter his INBOX with unnecessary stuff. Always ensure that you clean up all the garbage before you click on that 'forward' button".
ii) The other reason is for safety and security of your own computer against spam and virus attacks. Spamsters and scamsters pick up bulk email 'id's from such open, unsecured and 'not cleaned' forwards to feed into and put in the web of their nefarious schemes and attacks...
iii) A third danger which has become almost an everyday affair now is of "phising" or "stealing of identity" and hijacking of one's personal email 'id'... I do not have to elaborate on this, since it's my firm belief that anyone who has an email 'id' today would already have been a victim of 'lottery winnings', awards, and money demands through these scams....
iv) As a matter of principle, I do not encourage 'chain' letters and refrain from forwarding them. In matters of 'forwards' one must admit there are 'great' ones that float your way, and many of the jokes and animations that come by can be humourous and hilarious too. Such of those I feel are worthy of sharing with friends and other near and the dear, I ensure that the content is cleaned of all the clutter and garbage and then only 'forward'. Lately, I devised a better parking place for such in my other blogs specifically meant for these:
Do visit among other blogs I maintain:
You may recall how our own Blog was highjacked many months ago by unsavoury scamsters to post their nefarious messages thereon, when I had shared with y'all the password and the direct-to-blog email 'id'... Luckily I was alert and monitoring the blog closely, and was able to contain the damage and remedy the situation before anything serious could occur - by merely cancelling the previous 'gorilla' id and not sharing the new id with anyone.
Pardon me for endorsing this mail also to others in our 'group' ...the intention is only to educate all on matters of internet protocol and the basics of email etiquette ...for the safety and security of all.
With warm regards...
Maxie
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On 6 July 2010 17:55, prabhakar ullal bhat <pub391@rediffmail.com> wrote:
Appreciated Maxie. Keep them coming! More the merrier.
Prabhakar
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:18:44 +0530 wrote
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