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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
I used to have friends that would forward every damn email rumour in the universe. snopes IS your friend! I would finf the particular rumour du jour and send them the link back. at least two of them have quite emailing me. oh well, that's ALL they ever emailed  |
I have a bunch of them that do that as well, and some have stopped after I kept pointing out that the stuff they were forwarding was false. Never a "thanks for letting me know", or anything of that sort, they just stopped sending them, which is fine since I have all that free time on my hands now.
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Originally Posted by Mortis
I had the same problem, then I just told all my forwarding friends to please stop, or I would have to block their email address and to this day my mother has to phone instead of email  |
I actually did block my uncle. He used to forward every joke, internet rumor, quite a few of them seriously politically incorrect. One day I replied back to ask him how things were going, and about my cousins. I got no reply but continued to get the daily deluge of emails. A few days latter I tried again ... still not direct reply, just continued waste of time emails. I finally realized I was getting spammed by my uncle, I was on some giant mailing list and he just forwarded everything to everyone on the list.
So I blocked him! And haven't thought about changing it since. Especially since my mom (his sister) will forward me one of his occasionally, and it is still banal, bigoted, borderline racist crap he sent before.
Maybe I should have put this in the vent and rant thread...