Rules for forwarding E-Mails

Don’t forward anything without editing

Delete all other email addresses, headers and commentary from all the other forwarders. Only forward the actual “guts” or content of the email that you are of the opinion is valuable .

What is the value of your mail?

Think, what you are sending to some one is something the recipient needs

• Reality base event
• A moral story
• Some good wishes
• Humorous (Do they have the same sense of humor as you do)
• Do you just think it is worthy? If you cannot think of why the person you are forwarding to would like to receive the email-Then don’t forward it.
• Think not twice, but three times if forwarding that specific e-mail is worth the risk of your on the job credibility and professionalism being diminished.

Personal comment

If you cannot take the time to write a personal comment at the top of your forwarded email to the person you are sending to,Then you shouldn’t forward it at all.

Forwarding of chain letters

• Don’t forward any chain letters without authenticating the information in it.
• Don’t forward any emails , which are starting with the sentence “believe it or not”
• Don’t forward any lottery emails
• Don’t forward any LUCK emails
• Don’t forward any charity appeal without authentication of the individual or the organization mentioned in it.
• Don’t forward any emails in which you are warned in the end that “You will be cursed if you don’t forward this message”
• Don’t be stupid while forwarding emails , otherwise it will destroy your reputation toward the people who will receive baseless emails from you…..

Protect others e-mail being published

If you must forward to more than one person, put  our email address in the TO: field and all the others you are sending to in the BCc: field to from being published to those they do not know. This is a serious privacy issue! Do protect their email address not perpetuate a breach of privacy started by other forwarders who included their contact’s addresses in the To: or Cc: field by continuing to forward those visible addresses to your contacts! Remove any email addresses in the body of theemail that have been forwarded by those who brush off the privacy of their friends and associates.

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