waiting....

[lyssie]

So, my mother has this thing about sending me forwards, spam. Pictures. Stupid fucking poems. And I've told her, I've said, "Look, I hate spam. Please don't send it."

But she still occasionally does.

Today, she sent me 70k of images and text. I deleted it, and finally fought back.

She got 18k of fic out of me, which is damned small, in comparison... So. We'll see. And my sister and sister-in-law got them, too.

Hrm.

Comments

[swiftangel.livejournal.com]

Since my mother doesn't have a very large address book and my sister and cousin are equally dim, I tend to get at least 3 copies of everything... I can't seem to get them to stop.

For the ones that are hoaxes, I tend to quickly reply to the entire recipient list telling them it's a hoax and warning them not to forward it on any more. But I can't get them to stop with the stupid "send this to everyone you know or you'll have bad luck for 7 years" crap. My mother will even comment in those that she doesn't know enough people to send it to, but hopes she'll have good luck anyway... *slap*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Ugh. This is where you start fighting back! Send bad fanfiction off ff'net. Mary Sues! Aragorn/Frodo slash..... ! And etc.

My solution

[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

Every time my aunt, who was TERRIBLE about sendeing forwards, sent me something, I'd hop over to Snopes, copy and paste the entire "this is why what you sent me was a total load of crap", and send it back to her. She stopped sending me forwards after the third time. :)

[brookiki.livejournal.com]

I'm still working with my mother on how to use the internet, but she's been threatened under pain of death not to send (or open) certain things. What scares me is how many people who know nothing about computers send email attachments. Would they intentionally send us a virus? No. Would they accidentally do it? Yes.

I got an email recently from someone I know with NO subject, no message body, just an attached file. It was forwarded from an emial called "I'd better get this back." Did I open it? No way. Mom got the same and I deleted it before she even had a chance to say "What's that?"

People should really have to take a road test before entering the Information Superhighway.