The E-mailer’s 10 Commandments

or….Rules I Wish Everyone Would Follow When Using My E-mail Address:

1. Thou shalt send no prurient or pornographic material to my e-mail address.
2. Thou shalt not forward advertisements for weight loss products, work-at-home opportunities, or sexual enhancement products to my e-mail address.
3. Thou shalt not sign me up for free offers, newsletters, or news bulletins using my e-mail address.
4. Thou shalt not forward lame jokes or mushy anecdotes to my e-mail address.
5. Thou shalt not forward chain letters of any type, and especially not those threatening dire consequences if I fail to forward the message to at least ten more people, to my e-mail address.
6. Thou shalt not nest a forwarded message within other messages so that I have to open myriad messages to people whom I do not know before I can read the message that thou wishest me to read.
7. When thou forwardest materials that thou thinkest I might wish to see, thou shalt remove all extraneous characters and line breaks so that I can read the message without suffering eyestrain.
8. Thou shalt not send attached files to my e-mail address without notifying me first, especially if said file is larger than 2 meg. Thou shalt send no Zipped files to my e-mail address unless I have told thee that I have the appropriate software to unZip it.
9. Thou shalt Blind Carbon Copy my e-mail address when sending “bulk” e-mails.
10. Thou shalt keep thy messages short and to the point. If thou wishest to convey more than one page’s worth of information, thou shalt send a PDF file, use my snail mail address, or send it to my fax number.

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