The following is my post to a certain e-group, of which I am a member. This was in response to a general discussion about some people sending forwards, and how that ticks other people off (me included). Here goes:
"I know for a fact that we can't stop people from sending forwards. Sooner or later there will be someone who thinks that forwarding a mail to 50 ppl in the next 10 minutes will prevent him from getting aids the next time he decides to copulate with the nearest simian around him. Or someone who thinks that by forwarding some random mail some random child living in Lesser Mongolia will not get herpes. Or that Bill Gates himself will gift you $5 for every mail that you forward. The point here, is not to not send forwards, but to edit the mails you do decide to forward.
Case in point: The International Consumer Rights Protection Council mail. While I do agree that there are many amongst us who have a pressing need to register complaints against people who sell us defective refrigerators, you dont need to provide the link to read the so called 'solved cases', and then provide us with the same 42 'solved cases'. The "link" happens to do that job for us.
The moral of the story is thus but one word, EDIT. Send forwards, but remove the yahoo/homtmail taglines before you do so. Remove the senders' list before you click the send button. We are not interested in knowing that the message originated from the above mentioned person who copulated with an ape, went through the above mentioned kid in Lesser Mongolia who ended up getting herpes anywhichway, through to the spam filters of Bill Gate's Hotmail, untill someone decided that hey, SPAM IS GOOD FOR YOU! Also, amongst the plethora of jokes sent, I am sure that there are atleast 2 or 3 that are low even by your standards. Delete them. Quality not quantity, is what works, right?
Baaki sab kushal mangal hai. Likhte rehna ;-)
saadar pranam
tumhara mitr
abeer.
P.S.: It just occured to me, but can we register a complaint in the above mentioned 'International Consumer Rights Protection Council', for mental distress caused due to forwards? Naaah, just kidding!
2 comments:
that shall be the day, wen ppl believe in what u say... and do the things u want them to do for lazyness is a vertue... so says the saint... hehe.
well buddy, i totaly agree and i never send forwards, its just too boring and some are quite disgusting. deleting is so much more fun frankly.
bhagwaan tera bada kare!
I hate forwards...but atleast when the messenger says (10)...its better than (0).Forwards make checking mail something that everyone can do...even if we dont get any meaningful mails.
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