Summary

The following tips apply for your workstations both at home and at your place of work/study.

13 October 2008 (rev 4)

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  1. Common sense tips
  2. Tips about incoming messages that you may be about to read
  3. Tips about sending messages
  4. And if you have read the spam messages
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ToC3. Tips about sending messages

  1. Do not broadcast the e-mail addresses of your friends. Use the Blind Carbon Copy function (Bcc:) to hide the receiver addresses when you send an e-mail message to multiple recipients.

  2. Never ever use those various birthday greeting services for sending cute, clever, funny ‘cards’ to your friends. Both your address and theirs will almost certainly be added to a spam-list. Nobody deserves that kind of friend! Also, stop and think before signing up to shopping-related mailing lists or even completing online ‘surveys’ that ask for your e-mail address.

  3. Only people with a single-digit IQ level would bother to forward a chain letter to everybody they know. Right? Well, not entirely. In fact, a surprisingly high number of otherwise rational people often make complete idiots of themselves by doing just that! Do yourself a favour—always bin the chain letters.

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Murphy, John • 2008-10-13 • (other)