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Advice requested.
I have a lovely charming elderly aunt. Who has discovered the internet and email. And who forwards every chain mail/virus hoax that crosses her desk. Its’ gotten so bad that family members are hiding their email addresses from her.
I would be happy to exchange a couple of lines with her daily. I have in the past directed her to sites such as Snopes.com so that she can verify any virus warnings she receives. I have not responded to (nor forwarded) any of her chain mails.
Yet she continues in her forward ways.

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

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Advice requested.
I have a lovely charming elderly aunt. Who has discovered the internet and email. And who forwards every chain mail/virus hoax that crosses her desk. Its’ gotten so bad that family members are hiding their email addresses from her.
I would be happy to exchange a couple of lines with her daily. I have in the past directed her to sites such as Snopes.com so that she can verify any virus warnings she receives. I have not responded to (nor forwarded) any of her chain mails.
Yet she continues in her forward ways.

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

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Advice requested.
I have a lovely charming elderly aunt. Who has discovered the internet and email. And who forwards every chain mail/virus hoax that crosses her desk. Its’ gotten so bad that family members are hiding their email addresses from her.
I would be happy to exchange a couple of lines with her daily. I have in the past directed her to sites such as Snopes.com so that she can verify any virus warnings she receives. I have not responded to (nor forwarded) any of her chain mails.
Yet she continues in her forward ways.

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

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Advice requested.
I have a lovely charming elderly aunt. Who has discovered the internet and email. And who forwards every chain mail/virus hoax that crosses her desk. Its’ gotten so bad that family members are hiding their email addresses from her.
I would be happy to exchange a couple of lines with her daily. I have in the past directed her to sites such as Snopes.com so that she can verify any virus warnings she receives. I have not responded to (nor forwarded) any of her chain mails.
Yet she continues in her forward ways.

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

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Advice requested.
I have a lovely charming elderly aunt. Who has discovered the internet and email. And who forwards every chain mail/virus hoax that crosses her desk. Its’ gotten so bad that family members are hiding their email addresses from her.
I would be happy to exchange a couple of lines with her daily. I have in the past directed her to sites such as Snopes.com so that she can verify any virus warnings she receives. I have not responded to (nor forwarded) any of her chain mails.
Yet she continues in her forward ways.

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

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Advice requested.
I have a lovely charming elderly aunt. Who has discovered the internet and email. And who forwards every chain mail/virus hoax that crosses her desk. Its’ gotten so bad that family members are hiding their email addresses from her.
I would be happy to exchange a couple of lines with her daily. I have in the past directed her to sites such as Snopes.com so that she can verify any virus warnings she receives. I have not responded to (nor forwarded) any of her chain mails.
Yet she continues in her forward ways.

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

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Advice requested.
I have a lovely charming elderly aunt. Who has discovered the internet and email. And who forwards every chain mail/virus hoax that crosses her desk. Its’ gotten so bad that family members are hiding their email addresses from her.
I would be happy to exchange a couple of lines with her daily. I have in the past directed her to sites such as Snopes.com so that she can verify any virus warnings she receives. I have not responded to (nor forwarded) any of her chain mails.
Yet she continues in her forward ways.

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

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Advice requested.
I have a lovely charming elderly aunt. Who has discovered the internet and email. And who forwards every chain mail/virus hoax that crosses her desk. Its’ gotten so bad that family members are hiding their email addresses from her.
I would be happy to exchange a couple of lines with her daily. I have in the past directed her to sites such as Snopes.com so that she can verify any virus warnings she receives. I have not responded to (nor forwarded) any of her chain mails.
Yet she continues in her forward ways.

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

Depending on your email client, set up a rule or VBA code to delete anything where persons listed on any TO: lines are not in your Contacts list. (OK, OK, my answer is a bit Outlook-centric.)

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

Depending on your email client, set up a rule or VBA code to delete anything where persons listed on any TO: lines are not in your Contacts list. (OK, OK, my answer is a bit Outlook-centric.)

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

Depending on your email client, set up a rule or VBA code to delete anything where persons listed on any TO: lines are not in your Contacts list. (OK, OK, my answer is a bit Outlook-centric.)

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

Depending on your email client, set up a rule or VBA code to delete anything where persons listed on any TO: lines are not in your Contacts list. (OK, OK, my answer is a bit Outlook-centric.)

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

Depending on your email client, set up a rule or VBA code to delete anything where persons listed on any TO: lines are not in your Contacts list. (OK, OK, my answer is a bit Outlook-centric.)

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

Depending on your email client, set up a rule or VBA code to delete anything where persons listed on any TO: lines are not in your Contacts list. (OK, OK, my answer is a bit Outlook-centric.)

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

Depending on your email client, set up a rule or VBA code to delete anything where persons listed on any TO: lines are not in your Contacts list. (OK, OK, my answer is a bit Outlook-centric.)

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

Depending on your email client, set up a rule or VBA code to delete anything where persons listed on any TO: lines are not in your Contacts list. (OK, OK, my answer is a bit Outlook-centric.)

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Could you create a GMail account and add a filter to the rules that ensures that Aunties emails are sent to a holding folder…I haven’t fully tested this but I used to do it with some of my students emails to pull them away from my main email in box.

This way you can carry on chatting with her but the spam/chain goes to an area away from you.

PS if you haven’t got a GMail, I have a ton of invitations so PM me so you can play

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Could you create a GMail account and add a filter to the rules that ensures that Aunties emails are sent to a holding folder…I haven’t fully tested this but I used to do it with some of my students emails to pull them away from my main email in box.

This way you can carry on chatting with her but the spam/chain goes to an area away from you.

PS if you haven’t got a GMail, I have a ton of invitations so PM me so you can play

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Could you create a GMail account and add a filter to the rules that ensures that Aunties emails are sent to a holding folder…I haven’t fully tested this but I used to do it with some of my students emails to pull them away from my main email in box.

This way you can carry on chatting with her but the spam/chain goes to an area away from you.

PS if you haven’t got a GMail, I have a ton of invitations so PM me so you can play

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Could you create a GMail account and add a filter to the rules that ensures that Aunties emails are sent to a holding folder…I haven’t fully tested this but I used to do it with some of my students emails to pull them away from my main email in box.

This way you can carry on chatting with her but the spam/chain goes to an area away from you.

PS if you haven’t got a GMail, I have a ton of invitations so PM me so you can play

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Could you create a GMail account and add a filter to the rules that ensures that Aunties emails are sent to a holding folder…I haven’t fully tested this but I used to do it with some of my students emails to pull them away from my main email in box.

This way you can carry on chatting with her but the spam/chain goes to an area away from you.

PS if you haven’t got a GMail, I have a ton of invitations so PM me so you can play

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Could you create a GMail account and add a filter to the rules that ensures that Aunties emails are sent to a holding folder…I haven’t fully tested this but I used to do it with some of my students emails to pull them away from my main email in box.

This way you can carry on chatting with her but the spam/chain goes to an area away from you.

PS if you haven’t got a GMail, I have a ton of invitations so PM me so you can play

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Could you create a GMail account and add a filter to the rules that ensures that Aunties emails are sent to a holding folder…I haven’t fully tested this but I used to do it with some of my students emails to pull them away from my main email in box.

This way you can carry on chatting with her but the spam/chain goes to an area away from you.

PS if you haven’t got a GMail, I have a ton of invitations so PM me so you can play

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Could you create a GMail account and add a filter to the rules that ensures that Aunties emails are sent to a holding folder…I haven’t fully tested this but I used to do it with some of my students emails to pull them away from my main email in box.

This way you can carry on chatting with her but the spam/chain goes to an area away from you.

PS if you haven’t got a GMail, I have a ton of invitations so PM me so you can play

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

Reply | Quote

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

Reply | Quote

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

Reply | Quote

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

You have my sympathy. For this I had to dig a bit among the old bookmarks.

I have no direct help to give at the moment, or done any research on this topic; deleting mails is of course one way.

I don’t visit snopes so often, every second year or so, so I don’t know, but I think they gather everything, in its broadest sense.

But I know that we have seen different pages around the world myth busting computer hoaxes (virus or similar); one among them was the “HOAXBUSTERS at CIAC” (Computer Incident Advisory Capability; it was the first computer incident response team I think, at the Department of Energy in the USA; apparently it was formed in 1989, and known by many who followed the security/virus area during the ’90s). However it has been renamed and transformed I think (DOE-CIRC). Their old pages have been shut down. Nowadays it is a much more serious business.

However, there is page “Hoax Busters”, not associated with CIAC or anyone else, that still show examples, have some good advices etc. Since this is old things for me (last time I got some “Please help this poor dog” was around 1999-2000. ), I have not looked at all the “information” there, at the new site. There are some general advices, then a large list of topics, and several examples, I think. It is very clear about the whole issue, easy to understand. The above (long time ago) also means that I’m not up to date on the hoax front; Poor dog etc. so I can’t tell if the page is covering the latest that now trawls the email addresses around the net. But it is perhaps a good start, to get the idea what it is all about for someone like that to read.

http://www.hoaxbusters.org

If that doesn’t work, perhaps some diplomatic discourse about not forwarding unsolicited mails could help? Save energy, save the, what do I know, the bandwidth.

Or perhaps set up some mail rules, perhaps with a nice automatic reply…

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Get a new e-mail address.. let the one she is using for you…be your junk address.
use the NEW…. address…as your NEW default address..that way she won’t clog up your
default mail.
Should work like a charm…
Good luck

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Get a new e-mail address.. let the one she is using for you…be your junk address.
use the NEW…. address…as your NEW default address..that way she won’t clog up your
default mail.
Should work like a charm…
Good luck

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Get a new e-mail address.. let the one she is using for you…be your junk address.
use the NEW…. address…as your NEW default address..that way she won’t clog up your
default mail.
Should work like a charm…
Good luck

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Get a new e-mail address.. let the one she is using for you…be your junk address.
use the NEW…. address…as your NEW default address..that way she won’t clog up your
default mail.
Should work like a charm…
Good luck

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Get a new e-mail address.. let the one she is using for you…be your junk address.
use the NEW…. address…as your NEW default address..that way she won’t clog up your
default mail.
Should work like a charm…
Good luck

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Get a new e-mail address.. let the one she is using for you…be your junk address.
use the NEW…. address…as your NEW default address..that way she won’t clog up your
default mail.
Should work like a charm…
Good luck

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Get a new e-mail address.. let the one she is using for you…be your junk address.
use the NEW…. address…as your NEW default address..that way she won’t clog up your
default mail.
Should work like a charm…
Good luck

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Get a new e-mail address.. let the one she is using for you…be your junk address.
use the NEW…. address…as your NEW default address..that way she won’t clog up your
default mail.
Should work like a charm…
Good luck

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

My reading of your request is to how to stop Auntie forwarding the emails, rather than how to stop receiving them which I think is what some of the responses above offer.

You could try sending her the old Gullibility Virus Warning – other than that, try and persuade her that the warnings are the viruses themselves and all she is doing is spreading them further.

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My reading of your request is to how to stop Auntie forwarding the emails, rather than how to stop receiving them which I think is what some of the responses above offer.

You could try sending her the old Gullibility Virus Warning – other than that, try and persuade her that the warnings are the viruses themselves and all she is doing is spreading them further.

Yes – I’m looking for tactful methods.

I love the Gullibility Virus – particularly
This message is so important, we’re sending it anonymously! Forward it to all your friends right away! Don’t think about it! This is not a chain letter! This story is true! Don’t check it out! This story is so timely, there is no date on it! This story is so important, we’re using lots of exclamation points! Lots!! For every message you forward to some unsuspecting person, the Home for the Hopelessly Gullible will donate ten cents to itself. (If you wonder how the Home will know you are forwarding these messages all over creation, you’re obviously thinking too much.)

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

My reading of your request is to how to stop Auntie forwarding the emails, rather than how to stop receiving them which I think is what some of the responses above offer.

You could try sending her the old Gullibility Virus Warning – other than that, try and persuade her that the warnings are the viruses themselves and all she is doing is spreading them further.

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

My reading of your request is to how to stop Auntie forwarding the emails, rather than how to stop receiving them which I think is what some of the responses above offer.

You could try sending her the old Gullibility Virus Warning – other than that, try and persuade her that the warnings are the viruses themselves and all she is doing is spreading them further.

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

My reading of your request is to how to stop Auntie forwarding the emails, rather than how to stop receiving them which I think is what some of the responses above offer.

You could try sending her the old Gullibility Virus Warning – other than that, try and persuade her that the warnings are the viruses themselves and all she is doing is spreading them further.

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

My reading of your request is to how to stop Auntie forwarding the emails, rather than how to stop receiving them which I think is what some of the responses above offer.

You could try sending her the old Gullibility Virus Warning – other than that, try and persuade her that the warnings are the viruses themselves and all she is doing is spreading them further.

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

My reading of your request is to how to stop Auntie forwarding the emails, rather than how to stop receiving them which I think is what some of the responses above offer.

You could try sending her the old Gullibility Virus Warning – other than that, try and persuade her that the warnings are the viruses themselves and all she is doing is spreading them further.

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

My reading of your request is to how to stop Auntie forwarding the emails, rather than how to stop receiving them which I think is what some of the responses above offer.

You could try sending her the old Gullibility Virus Warning – other than that, try and persuade her that the warnings are the viruses themselves and all she is doing is spreading them further.

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Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

My reading of your request is to how to stop Auntie forwarding the emails, rather than how to stop receiving them which I think is what some of the responses above offer.

You could try sending her the old Gullibility Virus Warning – other than that, try and persuade her that the warnings are the viruses themselves and all she is doing is spreading them further.

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Along the same lines as the Gullibility Virus Warning is this favorite of mine in a Flash Presentation. A bit dated, but it still works well for me!

My Soapbox

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Along the same lines as the Gullibility Virus Warning is this favorite of mine in a Flash Presentation. A bit dated, but it still works well for me!

My Soapbox

Hi Sam, and Welcome!!

I only get a blank white screen from your link (The same as another post recently about Pizza). I am possibly missing something in order to view…..

Any idea’s?

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Any idea’s?

JavaScript enabled and Adobe Flash Player?

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JavaScript enabled and Adobe Flash Player?

Thanks Argus. I do have JS enabled, but had problems with AFP.

Vista using IE8.

I d/l AFP 10 today (twice) but still no joy. I proceeded to troubleshoot the problem from here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html

Started with #4 (being a possible Vista issue) – no success.

Then #2.

After restart, I can now view the swf. file in this thread, but I still cannot view ‘Hey Jude’s pizza file.

And…. I keep getting this prompt everywhere I vavigate in IE (including the lounge)

AFP still does not appear under START | ALL PROGRAMS ???

I assume that the problem lies in my IE / Flash settings, but am getting nowhere fast. Help.

Mod note: This relates to the file in this thread, but please move as you see appropriate. Thanks.

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Adobe Flash player is a plug-in or ActiveX control to a browser, so there shouldn’t be anything to find in the Start menu, you will find it in your browser settings.

I am not using IE on a daily basis anymore, so I am bit “rusty”, out of practice; in general you don’t want to download or run ActiveX controls, apart from on sites you trust, and sometimes not even from sites you trust. Thus, since IE works with zones, you can put some of the sites you trust in the trusted zone (such as a bank site, or Microsoft etc.) (See for example http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Change-Internet-Explorer-Security-settings ) and then adjust the security level, for the Trusted Zone, to Prompt for “Download signed ActiveX controls” and Enable for “Run ActiveX controls and plug-ins”. For the Internet Zone, OTOH, you can set it to Disable. I have locked up the settings for my Internet Zone in IE. I may have to come back on this.

Notice also that Adobe has a Flash uninstall software (updated every now and then, so one should use the latest; if I use it, I download it at the same time as a new Flash Player version). You will find a link under “1. Uninstall previous versions of Flash Player” on the page you linked to.

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Have you looked in IE security settings in Internet options? There a couple of activex-related thingies in there…

Edited: ooh, a simulpost there. Sorry

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Thanks both.

Have you looked in IE security settings in Internet options? There a couple of activex-related thingies in there…

Yes, I am trying to balance the correct level of security with my desire for hassle-free browsing, which is not easy!

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Bronze hi… have you thought about your firewall , just maybe…
it might have been the problem .. sometimes they will cause problems
with things so un-expected.
Just sayin.

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Advice requested.
I have a lovely charming elderly aunt. Who has discovered the internet and email. And who forwards every chain mail/virus hoax that crosses her desk. Its’ gotten so bad that family members are hiding their email addresses from her.
I would be happy to exchange a couple of lines with her daily. I have in the past directed her to sites such as Snopes.com so that she can verify any virus warnings she receives. I have not responded to (nor forwarded) any of her chain mails.
Yet she continues in her forward ways.

Any suggestions on how to stop the flow?

Hi Catherine

I received this today, you might want to forward it to said Auntie

Dear Friends

At the beginning of this new year I wanted to thank you for the emails you have forwarded over the previous year.

I must send a big thank you to whoever sent me the one about rat junk in the glue on envelopes, because I now have to use a wet sponge with every envelope that needs sealing.

Also, I now have to wipe the top of every can I open for the same reason.

I no longer have any savings because I gave it all to a sick girl who is about to die in the hospital for the 1,387,258th time. But that will change once I receive the £15,000 that Bill Gates/Microsoft are sending me for participating in their special email programs. Or from the senior bank clerk in Nigeria who wants me to split seven million dollars with me for pretending to be a long lost relative of a customer who died intestate.

I no longer worry about my soul because I have 363,214 angels looking out for me.

I have learned that my prayers only get answered if I forward emails to seven friends and make a wish within five minutes. I no longer drink Coca-Cola because it can remove toilet stains.

I can no longer buy petrol without taking a friend along to watch the car so a serial killer won’t crawl in my back seat when I’m filling up. I no longer go to shopping centres because someone will drug me with a perfume sample and rob me.

I no longer answer the phone because someone will ask me to dial a number and then I’ll get a phone bill with calls to Jamaica , Uganda , Singapore and Uzbekistan . I can’t use anyone’s toilet but mine because a big brown African spider is lurking under the seat to cause me instant death when it bites my bum.

I can’t even pick up the £5 I found dropped in the car park because it probably was placed there by a sex molester waiting underneath my car to grab my leg.

If you don’t send this email to at least 144,000 people in the next 70 minutes, a large dove with diarrhoea will junk on your head at 5:00pm tomorrow afternoon and fleas from 12 camels will infest your back, causing you to grow a hairy hump. I know this because it actually happened to a friend of my next door neighbour’s ex-mother-in-law’s second husband’s cousin’s beautician.

By the way….a South American scientist after a lengthy study has discovered that people with low IQ who don’t have enough sex, always read their emails while holding the mouse.

Don’t bother taking it off now, it’s too late.

Regards,
Your friend

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When my husband had to tell his mother and sister that we did not want to be inundated with all of their forwarded emails, he tactfully told them, we don’t have time to read all of the message but if they wanted to send two or three a week, those they thought were the best or most important, we will look at them. This coupled with the reassurance that we earnestly wanted to read any and all messages that they composed; the flood of junk was greatly diminished.

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That sounds like a nice way of phrasing it.

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I had the same problem with my mother. I asked her to stop and explained how she could check them out, did not work. So, for a short while, everytime she sent me one I did the snopes for her and replied with the link. If it was not on snopes I replied with a statement that these e-mails were just a waste of effort and that some teenager was laughing their buttocks off that their joke was going so far. I think the mention that a teenager got the better of her really made her mad (at the teenager, not me) and she quickly got the idea.

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I finally managed to get my Mum to stop sending me all this stuff, but it took extreme measures. I got married – she now sends them all to my wife instead…

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