this email, but I think it is worth reading. I usually send my email
messages using the “BCC”. Soooooo….my friends, dun be scared.
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The following advice is excellent. Some of you already use the ‘blind
carbon copy’ method for sending email messages. However,
this just confirms the importance of sending your email messages in this
way.
Please Read This All The Way Through
Late one evening, while online, I received an IM (Internet message)
from a gentleman who said he knew me through mutual pals online. We chatted
for an hour or so before deciding to keep in touch, as we had so many things
in common. I eventually, after a week or so of knowing him, trusted him with
my name (first name) and phone number. After all, he knew my friends and I
felt he must have been okay if they all liked and knew him.
He knew a lot about them; he knew a lot about me, and he knew a lot
about a lot. He seemed like such a nice person, a pleasant person, and
someone whom I felt very comfortable sharing my time online (and on the
phone) with. One night, a friend from our group of friends invited me to a
Chat Room where several of the friends had gathered and were chatting when
this gentleman popped into the Chat Room.
He popped in and then left quickly. Then, for the first time since I
met and started chatting with him, I mentioned him to one of the friends
who was in the Chat Room, one whom this gentleman claimed an association
with. She was in total awe, she did not know who he was! Things were
beginning to look really suspicious. The more she and I chatted, the more
suspicious it became. It also became apparent that this guy knew none of us.
Suddenly, he disappeared offline for a few days, then one day he pops
back in and sends me an IM saying that we need to talk. He called me at my
home and I was very upset, so I asked him how he really found me and why he
had felt the need to lie in the first place.
***This is where you all need to pay attention:***
He told me that he spotted my screen name on a “Forward” that one of
my friends had sent to some one else. My screen name is what attracted him.
He then used the screen name of others on the list of forwards to acquaint
himself with me and various others from our clique of friends. He also used
the Member Directory (at AOL) to look up info about others on the list of
forwards, so as not to look suspicious. He said he < BR>felt it was the only
way he would have the chance to get to know me, and the main attraction to
me was “My Screen name” because he thought it was “sexy”
I was upset, needless to say, as I had trusted this man with my
personal info, such as phone number and name. He also knew where I
lived (thanks to the phone bill) and I was now his prey. A few days after
having last talked to this person and thinking that was the last of him, I
received a phone call at 4:00 AM. It was this man telling me he was in town
to see a friend who lived 20 minutes from my house, and wanted to know if I
would like to meet him for coffee or breakfast.
When I told him it was not such a good idea, he became irate and hung up on
me. I immediately called him back (caller ID) and explained to him that my
husband was back home (trying to scare him) and please not be so mad (in
fear of him and what he might do). Telling him that my husband had returned
and we were reconciling was a lie, and I told him this to make him think I
was not alone.
Imagine the feeling I felt in the pit of my stomach when he came back
with the following response – “You’re a lying bitch, your husband is not
there with you – you are alone!” I hung up on him and immediately called the
Broward County Sheriff’s office and told them what had happened. They sent
an officer over to take a report and said that was really all they could do
for me at that time.
So, I packed few belongings into my car, and drove to my sister’s home
for the night. Fifteen or twenty minutes after I arrived at her home, I
received a phone call from this man again. He knew that I had called the
Sheriff and reported him; he knew where I was and he knew my sister and her
husband’s names.
People, let me tell you something, this man had been stalking me for
weeks and I had no idea. I walked, ate, slept and breathed in
constant fear until he was finally arrested for stalking- Not for stalking
me. Nope – For stalking another lady who lived in Kendall, Florida.
I wanted to share this with you all. And yes, it is all true. Friends,
when you forward things and you leave your friends’ names
out in plain view like that, you are putting them and yourself in what
could be grave danger. I hope I have gotten this message across. I have not
even begun to mention his assault (rape, using deadly force) charges the
detectives from Broward County and Kendall, FL uncovered on him while
investigating his prior history.
People, please – Be safe, be careful and use Blind Carbon Copy (BCC).
This is not a joke and not a hoax. Please Remember: It is Important to
remove all personal emails when forwarding items from this, or any other
list to individuals or other discussion groups (unless the message asks
readers to contact them via email or phone).
Remember, a lot of us have a great deal of information in our sig’s
(signature files) that appear at the bottom of many of our messages. In
addition, the blin d carbon copy (Bcc) option makes the individuals you send
email to be unseen by all other recipients.
E-Mailers should also cut out email addresses from forwards when
forwarding the message on. I know I have received unsolicited emails from
individuals who have gotten my address via a forwarded message from this
group. Although more annoying than serious, it could have been worse.
IT’S TRUE – IF YOU CARE ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS, CHANGE HOW YOU SEND
E-MAIL. This is a true concern of some people – Pay attention, read to the
end.
Many times friends on e-mail ask me about me using the BCC addressing
on e-mails and commenting about my e-mails not having long lists of other
e-mail addresses where the e-mail had been sent prior to me receiving it.
Please read all of this and you will understand why I do things the way I
do. Also this is not a fake or ridiculous idea from a crank.
Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every
time you forward an e-mail there is information left
over from the people that got the message before you – namely their e-mail
addresses. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses
builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get
a virus and his computer can send that virus to every e-mail address that
has come across his computer.
Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk
mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he
will make five cents. hat’s right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel.
How do you stop it?
Well, there are two easy steps:
1) When you forward an email, DELETE all of the other addresses that
appear in the body of the message. That’s right, delete them. Highlight
them and delete them, backspace them, whatever it is you know how to do. It
only takes a second.
2) Whenever you send an e-mail, don’t use the “To:”or “CC:” columns
for adding email addresses. Use the “BCC:” or “Blind Carbon Copy” column
for sending the message. This way the people that you send to only see their
own email address.
If you don’t see your “BCC:” option, click on where it says “To:” and
your address list will appear. Highlight the address and
click “BCC:”. When you “select recipients” you can put the recipients in the
“BCC” box instead of the “TO” box. And that’s it – it’s that easy- This
should be forwarded (minus my email address!) to everyone on your e-mail
list who does not use “BCC:” and this should also
confirm why you should “clean-up” your e-mails.
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings.
DO YOU KNOW.. the difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end…gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few
only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.
And now, for Margarine..
Very high in trans fatty acids.
Triple risk of coronary heart disease .
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)
Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.
Lowers quality of breast milk.
Decreases immune response.
Decreases insulin response.
And here’s the most disturbing fact…. HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..
This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).
You can try this yourself:
Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:
* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value ; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny micro organisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
Share This With Your Friends….. (If you want to “butter them up”)!
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