{"id":201,"date":"2005-10-18T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-18T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=201"},"modified":"2005-10-18T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T12:25:00","slug":"say-it-dont-spray-it-dealing-with-jokes-rumors-and-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Say it, don&#8217;t spray it: Dealing with jokes, rumors, and spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mobile-post\">Note: this is part of an article written by &#8220;The Crabby Office Lady,&#8221; a <br \/>Microsoft columnist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">&lt;b&gt;&#8221;Say it, don&#8217;t spray it.&#8221;&lt;\/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;I&#8217;ve used this little saying before, <br \/>and it apparently made an impression on some of my readers (who, of <br \/>course, wrote to tell me about it). But some of you are still not getting <br \/>the message. When I wrote that line, I was talking about using the Bcc box <br \/>to prevent all your e-mail recipients from seeing each others&#8217; e-mail <br \/>addresses. It&#8217;s the courteous thing to do (and I&#8217;m nothing if not an <br \/>e-mail etiquette advocate, even though not the perfect practitioner).&lt;\/i&gt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">&lt;i&gt;So, why an entire column about it? Well, this column is not just about <br \/>the Bcc box, per se. It&#8217;s more about how to deal with keeping all those <br \/>jokes (rarely funny), rumors (rarely true), and spam e-mail (rarely funny <br \/>or true) from soiling your pristine Inbox when your senders are clueless <br \/>about the Bcc box.&lt;\/i&gt;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-post\">Read more&#8230;<br \/>http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/assistance\/HA012309041033.aspx<br \/>(This may be a first&#8230; I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever pointed at a Microsoft <br \/>site before!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: this is part of an article written by &#8220;The Crabby Office Lady,&#8221; a Microsoft columnist. &lt;b&gt;&#8221;Say it, don&#8217;t spray it.&#8221;&lt;\/b&gt; &lt;i&gt;I&#8217;ve used this little saying before, and it apparently made an impression on some of my readers (who, of course, wrote to tell me about it). But some of you are still not getting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=201\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Say it, don&#8217;t spray it: Dealing with jokes, rumors, and spam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-3f","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=13","url_meta":{"origin":201,"position":0},"title":"Spam Poetry","author":"Jorah","date":"April 4, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I found this one from the Blogger main page. 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