Have you ever REPLIED ALL to one of those Forwarded Emails

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

... from a friend, coworker, etc?

Well, yesterday I received a forwarded email from a friend who I haven't seen in a while or spoken with. The only time we stay in touch is when they forward an email.

Usually, I just read them (if at all) and saw 'awww...' at the over sentimentalized tripe contained in most of them.
But yesterday, I just was in the frame of mind to respond to the 'Jesus is the only One who can save this Country.. and the atheists are trying to remove Him from the Government'.

So I replied all and just said that "Christ in the Heart, not on the Courtroom Doors is what will save this country and this Religious sky-is-falling mentality is what is dividing this country.'

Today I received the 'sorry I upset you, I dint appreciate you responding to my family and church members, I'm removing you from my email, have a great life'. So big duh at a big loss... al tho we did enjoy many good times over the years....

They accused me of improper email reply. Which I chuckled at. My personal POV is if you forward me an email unsolicited and have everyone in the distribution list.... I ENJOY telling everyone how bias, silly, wrong, or crappy the email is.... at least sometimes, I don't always do it! <smile>

Anyway, it was nice telling the Huckabee crowd that Christ never ordained a government to oversee His message.. and it's what WE do, not WHO we vote for that is telling to Christ! <wink>

So be forwarned... forward me emails at your own risk or at least .bcc everyone! LOL!

[MrCoffee]

1. i usually reply all with a Snopes link

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

2. My neice stopped forwarding me stuff too when I sent Snopes.com

About Madeline trying to get In God We Trust removed from our money!

Said, er, she was killed by her son YEARS ago... maybe we need to be a bit more selecting in sending out emails.. and including the link.

I'm the 'crazy uncle'. LOL!

[cyberswede]

5. Same here

I get dumb little patriotic/religious emails from the PTO chairpersons, of all people.

What galls me is that they just assume that everyone thinks like they do. They barely know me, and we have never discussed politics.
Sheesh!

[mikeytherat]

3. I got a particularly nasty one years ago (sent to me by mistake), and I went

NUCLEAR and then REPLIED-ALL. The e-mail in question was supposed to go to my dad (from a former Air Force buddy who now leans so far to the right, he's horizontal). To his credit, he apologized for sending me the e-mail, though he did it in a profoundly Republican manner "(sorry if you were offended..."). He also never made that mistake again.

mikey_the_rat

[DS1]

4. Once, I think

I ripped an acquaintance to shreds, publicly, for one of those stupid right-wing mails in 2003 or so.

[Blue-Jay]

13. Same here.

That guy is still in contact with me, but he doesn't forward any bullshit my direction anymore.

[AllegroRondo]

6. "The odds of an email being true...

..are inversely proportional to the number of times it has been forwarded."

[last_texas_dem]

7. Oh yeah

Back in high school, one of my best friends, who was a Ron Paul-type Republican, used to send me right-wing garbage all the time, and I would often respond with a "Reply All." I don't remember anyone but him ever arguing back with me, though, but I'm sure I pissed plenty off plenty of the folks on his e-mail list!

I've also caused plenty of stirs on this extended family e-mail group by responding to some of the bullshit a couple of them send out fairly regularly. I just don't get it... I purposely don't send out political e-mails to them, but they just can't resist sending out their backwards, racist, "Christian" junk. And, I swear, 90-percent of the time they're inaccurate, and debunkable on Snopes within a few seconds. I don't understand not checking the facts before sending such junk out. I don't like arguing with family, but I have no qualms with setting them straight on factual inaccuracies. The lesson doesn't seem to be sinking in, though, as they continue to do it.

I don't get nearly as many of these as I used to, though. I don't know if it's just that I don't use e-mail as much in general, or if all of my conservative and/or idiotic friends have decided not to send me those types of e-mails anymore.

[RoadRage]

8. Just discussed this today..

I got the wonderful "Obama is a Muslim Koran lover" email about 3 times yesterday.. and my husband & I crafted this response that we "Replied to all" on all of the emailes we recieved:

(Warning - this will take you to another DU link on GD-Politics.. enter at your own risk): http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4032401&mesg_id=4032401

All of the people who we knew would agree with us replied favorably. The sender, and our few republican friends (i hate to admit we have them..) didn't reply at all. No shock.. they were caught with their pants down. DUH!

[catmandu57]

9. Yes

A few years ago I got the bad american forward purported to be from George Carlin, I replied all with a link to Carlin's page. I usually tell people up front no fucking forwards.

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. Funny thing — whenever I 'reply all' with facts, etc.

I never hear from any of those people again. :shrug:



The last time was about the "New Jersey housewife" e-mail. Here's my reply:


This was actually written not by "a housewife from New Jersey," but by Doug Patton, a right-wing hack associated with Talon News, the now-defunct (and then-bogus) "news" site that was also responsible for Jeff Gannon, aka Jim Guckert, the male prostitute-turned-White House "correspondent." It first appeared two and a half years ago at gopusa.com, which created Talon News and whose stated mission is "to spread the conservative message throughout America."

Always check your sources. They'll tell you a lot.

Here's something written about 33 years ago that I think has a much more powerful and appropriate message. Some of you on this list may remember it. (I'm quoting from memory, but I don't think more than a word or two may be wrong.)

One morning while I was feeling just swell
I got a letter in the mail
The letter was from Uncle Sam
He was sending me to Viet Nam
So I hopped onto the military truck,
Wishing me the best of luck
Now I lie here on the ground
From my body passes not a single sound
Lying down in bloody pain
Now who am I to blame?

The author was one (sender's brother). He was 12 at the time.



I did get a reply from the sender, who's an old girlfriend. She said, "Opinions are like assholes," etc.

Haven't heard from her since. :)

[racaulk]

11. I did it once...and got great joy out of it.

I received it from an acquaintance (who I have never met personally) who is a member of the same men's outdoor group that I belong to. He added me to his email list, against my expressed wishes, to send me email updates about his business, about 2-3 emails a week. I emailed him several times to stop spamming me, to no avail.

Then he sent *the* email that sent me over the edge. You know the one. The "pie in the sky" email that says AOL (or Microsoft, or some other computer company) will send you a check for $243 for each person you forward the email to, and if your friends send it to their friends you get another $241, etc. You know, because they apparently have a device that can track that sort of thing, it says so in the email. He forwarded it with a "what could it hurt?" at the beginning.

Then one of his friends, who was also a recipient of this email along with me, hit Reply All to resend to all of the original recipients again, along with some more recipients (who I assume are her friends). She also said "what could it hurt?"

Well, that was the proverbial straw.

This second email went out to about 200 people. And the kicker was that the email itself had a long string of prior recipients in the text of the email, so I had access to the people who had received this email about the last 12 times it had been sent. (Does no one know what "BCC" is?) I took the time to add those people to the recipients of my email, so I ended up with about 800 people on the email I sent out.

I sent her the Snopes link debunking this trash and I basically told her what a fucking gullible idiot she is to believe such a "pie in the sky" email without giving it any critical thought whatsoever. I also told her that she shouldn't be sending emails from her work address, as it is too easy to reveal your identity using a "firstname.lastname @ company.com" email address. I informed her that, in response to her "what could it hurt?" question, I had taken the liberty of copying the IT director of her company on my email (I looked it up on her company's website) so that they could hopefully have a discussion about the appropriateness of use of her company's networking resources and bandwidth.

I then hit "Send" with great pleasure. A few people emailed me back saying they got a kick out of my email, and a couple of others expressed annoyance. But I've never met any of those people, so why should I care, right?

As for the original guy that was spamming me? This happened about a year ago, and I haven't heard from him since.

:evilgrin:

[LynneSin]

12. I did that to a relative about the '50 people clinton supposively had killed'

I did a reply all with the Snopes article that ripped her crappy email to shreds.

She replied back how rude of me to do that especially since I didn't know any of these people (her co-workers) - my response? How rude of her to email falacies of the right-wing and oh, don't even attempt bcc: because I have your email distrubtion list and I'll just forward my response to all of them.

[gmoney]

14. Right... it's OK for them to spam their beliefs...

...but it's not OK for you to respond with your beliefs. Welcome to Christian America.

[trof]

15. I did that about 10 minutes ago.

If you're too damned dumb to send that crap Bcc then I just LOVE to share my reply with all you forwarded to.

[hippywife]

16. If they publish their

distribution list, they ask for it. Works both ways. I always respond to all, usually with a link from Snopes where applicable, and they don't appreciate it. Over the years of having done this, I barely get them anymore at all. And I've launched a successful campaign to have these stopped at work.

[Saphire]

17. I have, I had an annoying co-worker who insisted on sending me her

Religious e-mails. I finally told her to stop sending them, that not everyone was a Christian. Of course, she was a repug, and that thought had never entered her small mind.

[Coyote_Bandit]

18. Reply all

with a Snopes link - or something else to debunk the crap.

If they have the nerve to forward email "newsletters" then I will unsubscribe them if I can. I've unsubscribed a bunch of religious folks from the American Family Association.....wouldn't have happened if they had kept the crap to themselves.....