Originally Posted by mrs theo
Do you use e-mail? If you forward something to someone, and they forward it to someone...pretty soon strangers have your e-mail address. When I forward an e-mail, I always make sure I delete any names and e-mail addresses on the page. When I send a joke on to many people, I use BCC (which stands for Blind Copy Sent, I don't know where the other C came from) and their e-mail addresses do not show up to each other.
Thank you one and all for your advice. I have in the past applied everything you have said except the span issue. That I will start using regularly. Yes, I have a high rated firewall--got that when I got my new Windows7. And as for the above mentioning of using BCC, I put in red the first line of my BCC forwarding that people should erase, etc. etc. Yet my friends and family continue to send things with gobbs of people I do not know's email addresses. Like I said before, this Internet thing weaves a tight web. Thanks again everyone.