"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

When the fall season rolls around, the flu and other things begin to make the rounds. The other things include Forward Abuse. With shorter days and cooler weather, people have more time to participate in computer exercise.

Each year when our time goes from Daylight Savings time to Standard time, about a week later I have to activate my Forward Abuse filter on my email. Because of my web site and MetroFactor, along with this blog I get a large amount of email. I try to read each one, and answer quickly if an answer is needed. But with Forward Abuse, this becomes increasingly difficult.

What is Forward Abuse you ask? Forward Abuse is that abundance of email you receive that has been sent to someone, and they forward it to their friends, and it gets forwarded to their friends and on and on in a worldwide circle. 

Lately I have been getting five or more forwarded emails each day that are exactly the same from up to five different people. My taste in funnies is different than most, so it is rare they are a worthwhile read for me. And I have never been one to read two screens of text to get to a silly punch line. The Delete Key gets activated long before that.

First it was a joke, and maybe a picture. That has turned into sometimes a dozen pictures to scroll through, power point presentations, and movie clips. And they go all the way up to those that say: "If you don't forward this you will die at your keyboard naked in shame with stains on your chair and finger tips that show no sign of wear because you didn't fulfill your duty of forwarding this useless piece of crap".

So my Forward Abuse Filter has been activated once again. So any email that has FW, fw, other people's names or a few other things that I won't reveal here, I will never get to see it. It goes directly to trash, does not pass go, does not activate my wurzle email tone and lets me enjoy the email I am so glad and thankful to receive.

-=One Day At A Time=-

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