When someone feels the need to forward a message to me via email....please take out the "fw.s" Example:
Memo: fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:fw:picture of donkey
I do not need to know that this message has been forwarded eight times.
Also, I do not need to see the hundred email addresses before I get to the message, joke, picture or whatever the hell is being sent to me. All I ask is that the sender do a 10 second clean-up.
In the same vein, I HATE chain letters. I've been bombarded the last couple of days with about a hundred of them. I keep getting the same inane one where, supposedly, for every person you send this email to, Bill Gates will give you $242.00. Microsoft will then call you in two weeks to get your address. The "writer" got $245,000, but its real because despite the numerous typos, the writer is an attorney.
I don't know whats worse: the fact someone wasted time in their life writing this, or the fact that some fools actually believe it.