Forwarding :: A Lesson In Security

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Ok this entry is actually an email of mine to a group of friends, about why I soooo hate forwards, chain letters and bla bla. Sorry this one is in Malay.. I'll translate some other time if there is reason enough

Ok ni nak citer sikit

forward, utk pengetahuan rakan rakan, forward ni digunakan oleh spammer untuk mengutip alamat email kita utk digunakan utk tujuan spam kita.

bagaimana? pernah kah anda melihat senarai email yang kawan kita hantar kepada kita? bagaimana kalau senarai semua email tersebut sampai kepada spammer? maka penuhla email anda dan orang2 lain dengan benda benda tak berfaedah, porno, iklan bodo dan sebagainya

bagaimana untuk menggunakan forward secara bijak?

1. pastikan anda delete semua senarai email dari penghantar sebelum menghantar email. mungkin dia tak tahu, tak mengapa, tapi jangan ANDA yang buat sambil lewa.

2. sila gunakan kemudahan BCC. letakkan hanya satu alamat email di ruangan TO. dan yang selebihnya di ruangan BCC. Penerima yang menerima forward anda akan hanya dapat melihat email tersebut dihantar kepada penerima di ruangan TO. dan yang berada di ruangan BCC tidak akan kelihatan.

ambil perhatian bahawa kebanyakan email percuma (hotmail, yahoo) memerlukan anda meletakkan sekurang2nya satu alamat email di ruangan TO.

ok dah selesai tanggungjawab.


For your info .... 80% of all forwards/chain letter are started by Spammers.... 100% of chain letters are used by spammers to harvest emails...
Spammers monitors open mailing list for email adresses... if using yahoogroups plz set it to require approval to join. If most of ur group would rather read it online.. have the mailing list not display email addresses....

Now forward this nice advice on how to forward securely... and avoid getting more junkmails into ur mail box....

"Don't want spam, don't own an email address - Bill Gates (not)"

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