This is advice from a Network Administrator responsible for all of the computers at a very large corporation.  It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send emails. 
Please read the short letter below, even if you're sure you already follow proper procedures. 

Do you really know how to forward emails?
50% of us do; 50% DO NOT.Do you wonder why you get viruses or
junk mail? Do you hate it? 

 
Every time you forward an email there is information left over from the people who received the message before you did, namely their email addresses and names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and all it takes is for one person to get a virus, and his computer can send that virus to every email 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 for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel! 
 
How do you stop it?  Well, there are several easy steps. Try the following if you haven't done it before:

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  1. AnonymousJuly 20, 2011

    Good advice, but don't agree on the virus infection issue. The rest its true and one should follow them. Good work.

    Computer Geek

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