Cleaning up the original message: You get an email
and you want to forward it. When you do you notice that there is this huge
area that shows all these other emails, from other people just hitting forward.
There could be hundreds there and if you just send there will be even more.
So you want to clean it up so that only the email itself is in the email and no
oneelse's information. There are two ways to do this:
First: Copy/Paste
Open your email and highlight all you want to
send with your mouse and then right click on it to copy it. Click forward.
Now right click on the message area and click on select all. Now right
click again and click on paste. Now you just have the message you want to
send.
Second: Cutting
With this one you click on forward.
Now highlight the areas you don't want and click on cut to remove the areas that
are not needed. You can also do this by viewing the source (in Outlook
express go under view/source edit) and there you can edit the html of the email
and remove any formatting you don't want.
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Sending only your email in the email and no one else's. To do this you
want to use BCC and not TO.
Below is an example of what you see when you
use the To: line in emails. This is what others see and they now have access to
each and everyone of those other email addresses.
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Then, if your friends forward it and don't remove the information it continues
to give others information about people. How often have you had to scroll down
lists of "Original Message" information in order to get to the joke? Below is an
image showing what happens and the other emails are highlighted.
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Instead of using the To: line in emails use the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) line. It
sends to everyone without a problem but it hides who you sent it to. Below is
what someone sees when they open the email.
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Now if they go to forward or reply here is what is visible. See how it removes
all but the original sender email. You should always remove that information
when sending to others but if you don't at least you aren't giving away their
information to strangers.
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How do you use BCC? It's not that difficult.
In Outlook Express go
to the top of the email and click on view; choose All Headers. It will then stay
up for you to use always.
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In yahoo and gmail email go to the compose page and choose
to add BCC:
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In msn/hotmail it is already set up there for you to use:
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Protect yourself and your friends by not giving others email addresses that they
don't already have. Emails are forwarded all over the world and far too often
people you have never heard off have gotten access to your information. Be smart
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