Comments on: Friendly spam - stop it!

by: Kelson

Fri, 26 May 2006 22:49:42 +0000

I usually just reply with a link to the relevant article on Snopes.

by: The Preacher

Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:05:10 +0000

Oh this is a source of misery. I used to get a lot of these from one particular person but I managed to in the end get them to stop without upsetting them. My person favourite friendly spams are..

1) How well do you know ? Answer these 196 questions to see how well you know .

2) A miracle. (A phoney-baloney story about how some kid was in a coma and their parents were run over by a car that had been stolen by some dogs but, in the end an angel appears or something and everything is fine. If i wanted cheesy ‘motivational’ crap I’d get a job in a Hallmark store or just listen to more chart music.)

3 Send an email to this kid who has cancers on his cancer. Please pray for him.

I’m just glad I don’t get this crap anymore.

by: Sarah

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:24:00 +0000

Hi, I bookmarked this site. I’m so sick of forwards, and the people who get all defensive when they have been shown that forwards are junk. I’m tired of supposed chat lets that accept posting of chain mail. I haven’t found one chat list that disallows them except for my own. Other lists that don’t allow them usually turn out to be lists I’m otherwise not interested in because of the subject or exclusivity.

by: Peter Karlsson

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:02:15 +0000

Friendly spam isn’t

I found an interesting article via Spam Huntress about those annoying “friendly spammers”.

by: Administrator

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:36:13 +0000

And I suggested to a friend that she should set up a mailing list that people could subscribe to for her forwards. And of course, they could unsubscribe as well Anyway, Yahoo groups is relatively newbie friendly.

by: Angsuman Chakraborty

Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:17:08 +0000

I have politely suggested to one close friend who frequently spammed (friendly spam or is it friendly fire?) that he should take to blogging which will give him wider audience for his articles. I even offered to setup one from him.

by: Administrator

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:39:04 +0000

Those who like getting those forwards could just find a mailing list that caters to their particular tastes.

And yeah, I had to tell a friend just a few days to stop sending me forwards. I told her I’d love to keep in touch with her, but if she was going to continue sending me all that junk, I’d have to block her, which would mean she’d have to use a second e-mail address to reach me.

by: Joe

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 19:34:34 +0000

My arguement for friendly spammers is that they send so much unimportant stuff that when they do send out an important (not forward) email they may be ignored. I know I ignore relatives like that, even my Dad.

But some people really do like getting forwards of interesting/funny junk. They are likely the same people who like sending them. They probably don’t get a lot of email already. Otherwise they would realize how much time it would take to read through it all.