Cute puppies, nice looking roses, funny jokes, greetings.... the list is endless. This and more is what most of us get to see in our email inbox's.. You will say spam !! But it's not spam, the mails are from people we know..friends, colleagues, relatives. Do we like them ? Yes.. sometimes. But most of the times they are a big time waster. All we will do is forward it to 'all' the people in our address book !!
But hey, I'm against this. My policy is 'If I did not ask for it, why did you send it'. How would you feel if people gave you advise all the time, without you asking for it. Offended, angry ?
Well, I now mail back people who send me forwards, asking them to 'unsubscribe' me from their mail forwarding list. And guess what, in all the cases it had worked just fine.
One more thing I recall thinking about email forwarding is the service providers who are laughing all the way to the bank. The free email service providers get to display more adds, hence more revenue. The Internet service providers get more $ due to the high volume of internet traffic. There is even a term 'holiday traffic' coined by these guys. Even the antivirus companies get to work overtime and scan all the emails and attachments. No wonder big infrastructure companies like Cisco are getting bigger..
I'm doing my bit from being conned, what about you ?
But hey, I'm against this. My policy is 'If I did not ask for it, why did you send it'. How would you feel if people gave you advise all the time, without you asking for it. Offended, angry ?
Well, I now mail back people who send me forwards, asking them to 'unsubscribe' me from their mail forwarding list. And guess what, in all the cases it had worked just fine.
One more thing I recall thinking about email forwarding is the service providers who are laughing all the way to the bank. The free email service providers get to display more adds, hence more revenue. The Internet service providers get more $ due to the high volume of internet traffic. There is even a term 'holiday traffic' coined by these guys. Even the antivirus companies get to work overtime and scan all the emails and attachments. No wonder big infrastructure companies like Cisco are getting bigger..
I'm doing my bit from being conned, what about you ?
