TitanTiger 22,006 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 My number one pet peeve with email...above regular spam, above those stupid ones that tell you that Microsoft or AOL is tracking all the forwards and will enter you into a chance to win $50,000...are the religious manipulation ones. You know, the "If you're not ashamed of Jesus, forward this to 20 of your friends" or "If you love God, send this to everyone you know" ones. The immediate responses that come to mind would be too R-rated to actually follow through on. Do any of you have any pithy comebacks you've actually sent out in response to these? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
autiger518 1 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Those bother me, but a bigger one of mine are people that do not know how to correctly forward an email in other words you have to click back on like 5 attachments to get to the actual email. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 3,836 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 My number one pet peeve with email...above regular spam, above those stupid ones that tell you that Microsoft or AOL is tracking all the forwards and will enter you into a chance to win $50,000...are the religious manipulation ones. You know, the "If you're not ashamed of Jesus, forward this to 20 of your friends" or "If you love God, send this to everyone you know" ones. The immediate responses that come to mind would be too R-rated to actually follow through on. Do any of you have any pithy comebacks you've actually sent out in response to these? From your response, we can tell that you don't love Jesus. As none of us have ever been blessed with one of these emails coming from you. Don't you care? Don't you even care? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boonan 0 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Those bother me, but a bigger one of mine are people that do not know how to correctly forward an email in other words you have to click back on like 5 attachments to get to the actual email. It's even better when it's all on one page and you have to go through allthe forwading headers and each person sent it to 500 people. BCC should be a way of life. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BamaGrad03 0 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Yeah I don't like those either Titan. It's like "you will make Baby Jesus cry if you don't bug at least 22 of your friends with same guilt trip" Nothing like furthering the stereotype that Christians are overbearing and intrusive. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AUJarhead 72 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Whenever I get something like that, I forward it back to the person who sent it to me 10 times. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392672 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AU_tiger_2000 0 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 My number one pet peeve with email...above regular spam, above those stupid ones that tell you that Microsoft or AOL is tracking all the forwards and will enter you into a chance to win $50,000...are the religious manipulation ones. You know, the "If you're not ashamed of Jesus, forward this to 20 of your friends" or "If you love God, send this to everyone you know" ones. The immediate responses that come to mind would be too R-rated to actually follow through on. Do any of you have any pithy comebacks you've actually sent out in response to these? Why do you hate Jesus? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392694 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grider 1 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Most fowards to me get sent to the bit bucket pretty damn quick. I'm enjoying gmail for education domains right now though it has cut down on the amount of spam greatly. We updated the dns records this morning at 9am to point to the gmail servers from our internal ones. By 10:00 am I had users that had 50 messages in their spam folder in the gmail web interface. Bonus for me, no more hearing about all the spam people get because our former spam filter was junk. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392720 Share on other sites More sharing options...
otterinbham 0 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 My number one pet peeve with email...above regular spam, above those stupid ones that tell you that Microsoft or AOL is tracking all the forwards and will enter you into a chance to win $50,000...are the religious manipulation ones. You know, the "If you're not ashamed of Jesus, forward this to 20 of your friends" or "If you love God, send this to everyone you know" ones. The immediate responses that come to mind would be too R-rated to actually follow through on. Do any of you have any pithy comebacks you've actually sent out in response to these? From your response, we can tell that you don't love Jesus. As none of us have ever been blessed with one of these emails coming from you. Don't you care? Don't you even care? That's a dumb response. How do you feel about total strangers knocking on your door at 8 in the morning? Or picking up the phone and calling you because they feel you need ministering to? Both basically interrupt people's lives, and then assume that there's something wrong with the person who doesn't want to stop what they're doing to receive the message. At that point, by creating ill-will, such invasive tactics actually interfere with the spreading of the Word, rather that help. What's more, e-mail evangelism of this type is really nothing more than a cheap and really shallow communication of the faith, thereby devaluing the message. It doesn't require sacrifice or commitment, it just requires highlighting everybody on your address book and hitting 'send.' As a result, you take the Word of Christ and turn into into just one more thing to be cleaned out of the in box--Which ultimately makes people far less receptive to Christ's ministry in the long run. And that really defeats the purpose, doesn't it? Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
otterinbham 0 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 Actually, the irony of it all is that there should be a special place in Hell for people who send out tons of unwanted e-mails. Nigerian bank scams, stock tips, penis enlargement, and now Jesus. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanTiger 22,006 Posted August 8, 2007 Author Share Posted August 8, 2007 *cough*SARcasm*cough* Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392753 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 3,836 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 *cough*SARcasm*cough* Yeah. All you gotta do is mention Jesus and Otter comes out blasting the evangelicals. I usually show up at the door pistol in hand if somebody wakes me early. Not because I'm scared, but because I am pissed. At my age, I need my beauty sleep. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TitanTiger 22,006 Posted August 8, 2007 Author Share Posted August 8, 2007 *cough*SARcasm*cough* Yeah. All you gotta do is mention Jesus and Otter comes out blasting the evangelicals. I usually show up at the door pistol in hand if somebody wakes me early. Not because I'm scared, but because I am pissed. At my age, I need my beauty sleep. Well, I actually agree with what he said...I just think he missed the sarcasm in your response. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
otterinbham 0 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 *cough*SARcasm*cough* Yeah. All you gotta do is mention Jesus and Otter comes out blasting the evangelicals. I usually show up at the door pistol in hand if somebody wakes me early. Not because I'm scared, but because I am pissed. At my age, I need my beauty sleep. Ah. Well your opinions are so uniformly loopy, I pretty much believe any wacky thing you write.I felt it was pretty consistent for you, actually. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 3,836 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 *cough*SARcasm*cough* Yeah. All you gotta do is mention Jesus and Otter comes out blasting the evangelicals. I usually show up at the door pistol in hand if somebody wakes me early. Not because I'm scared, but because I am pissed. At my age, I need my beauty sleep. Ah. Well your opinions are so uniformly loopy, I pretty much believe any wacky thing you write.I felt it was pretty consistent for you, actually. Just push down on the shaft so the barb won't catch as you pull the hook out........ My opinions are only loopy to you. Many people feel like I do. Be afraid. Be very afraid..... Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392766 Share on other sites More sharing options...
otterinbham 0 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 *cough*SARcasm*cough* Yeah. All you gotta do is mention Jesus and Otter comes out blasting the evangelicals. I usually show up at the door pistol in hand if somebody wakes me early. Not because I'm scared, but because I am pissed. At my age, I need my beauty sleep. Ah. Well your opinions are so uniformly loopy, I pretty much believe any wacky thing you write.I felt it was pretty consistent for you, actually. Just push down on the shaft so the barb won't catch as you pull the hook out........ My opinions are only loopy to you. Many people feel like I do. Be afraid. Be very afraid..... Yeah. But they can't really tear themselves away from Jerry Springer to do anything about it. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392770 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCTAU 3,836 Posted August 8, 2007 Share Posted August 8, 2007 *cough*SARcasm*cough* Yeah. All you gotta do is mention Jesus and Otter comes out blasting the evangelicals. I usually show up at the door pistol in hand if somebody wakes me early. Not because I'm scared, but because I am pissed. At my age, I need my beauty sleep. Ah. Well your opinions are so uniformly loopy, I pretty much believe any wacky thing you write.I felt it was pretty consistent for you, actually. Just push down on the shaft so the barb won't catch as you pull the hook out........ My opinions are only loopy to you. Many people feel like I do. Be afraid. Be very afraid..... Yeah. But they can't really tear themselves away from Jerry Springer to do anything about it. Hey. There's no call for that. Some of us like to see two big naked white women fight over a skinny man. Makes us think maybe we could have at least three of them fight over one of us. Don't dis Jerry. He always brings us "big love". Oh yeah. If you don't forward the Jesus mail, you will go to hell. Link to comment https://www.aufamily.com/topic/39194-forwarded-email-pet-peeve/#findComment-392788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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