by Jake Ludington, columnist
http://www.jakeludington.com If you have an e-mail address, you probably also have at least one 'forwarding friend' to e-mail every joke, urban myth, and karma-building novelty message in circulation. If you don't have a forwarding friend, chances are, you are the forwarding friend.
Don't get me wrong -- there's no shame in forwarding jokes, stories, and other bits of textual entertainment. There are, however, 3 Golden Email Etiquette Rules one must follow when forwarding messages, and they are:
1. Remove all '>' or '|' tags before sending the message. They make jokes hard to read and they bloat the message size, making less space for more jokes in your Hotmail account.
2. Remove the list of email addresses who already received the message. Friends don't need to know that john@somwhere.com and 500 of his closest associates have already read the joke.
3. And finally, you should always send the message to a list of recipients using the BCC field option. BCC stands for "blind carbon copy" and it hides the addresses of recipients listed in its field. This gives the email message a more personal appearance.
Speaking of those forwarding tags ...
Have you ever tried to remove forwarding tags by hand? Not unless you have a lot of spare time.
One alternative is to copy the message text into text editor like Notepad and use the Find and Replace to remove the forwarding bracket.
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