Thanks. No. Rinse. Repeat.

Thursday night, I installed the beta Office 07 on my laptop. Still a little bumpy, still trying to get it running right. Anyways, I was very interested in what new “tagging” features or equivalent that Outlook 2007 might have. Initially, I was a little disappointed but still evaluating it. I read a few people’s impressions on this topic and came across the whole “Getting Things Done” approach. I am very interested in this topic and will research more about it.

While visiting 43Folders.com , I came upon ThanksNo.com.

Hi. The person who sent you this link is a friend who likes you a
lot but who wants you to respect their email address, their privacy,
and their time.

Chances are, this person asked you to visit this page because you did one of these things:

• Forwarded a funny story, a virus warning, or a photo that you enjoyed
• Sent email to lots of people using the “To:” line (instead of the
  “BCC:” line), thereby exposing your friend’s email address to strangers
• CC’d your friend unnecessarily on something you had sent primarily to someone else

In any case, you might want to go back and have another look at the
email they’re replying to. They asked you to visit here because, while
they love getting one-on-one, personal messages from you, they really don’t want to receive more messages like the one you just sent. Cool?

You’re not a bad person, and no one hates you, but it would be
valuable to learn the very personal preferences of your friends, family
members, and co-workers before including them in unrequested email or
choosing to expose their private address to people they don’t know.

Thanks for understanding, and if this same thing ever happens to
you, feel free to reply to an email you don’t want by pasting this in

The basic message is don’t forward me crap…I have enough to read and do.

I sent one these messages a few years ago to friend. It got to the point where I stopped reading his email because it was just forwarded crap. One time, he sent me some important message…like he’s visiting or something. I didn’t read it until after the time had past.

I shared this site with my wife. She is definitely a vicitim of this topic. Sometimes, she is a recursive victim. She wanted to add: please don’t forward me anything that you received from someone else and I was also copied on. For example, her grandma will forward some email to her and her mom (not BCC’d). Her mom then forwards it again to her without taking the time to read the initial distribution list.

Regardless, I did enjoy the footer with respect to the warranty of the site:

It is provided in the hope it will be useful, but it is offered on an as-is basis and without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.