Today I received an email from an acquaintance with about 30 names in the “TO” field. This fellow sends at least one of these out a week, often two or three; all quoting some ultra right wing, or otherwise ultra conservative group on the Obama Administration and always remarkably disparaging and that’s an understatement.
Having a group of names in the “TO” field, of course, reveals your email address to everyone else receiving that email and those like-minded to the sender, assume me to be so inclined. Today, having receive the one, I responded with “PLEASE REMOVE” in the “SUBJECT” field and resceived a curt note back: “Excuuuse me.” Almost simultaneous with that response were three more emails, all espousing that the end of the United States was fast approaching as a result of health care and the Obama Administration.
It almost goes without saying that some folks out there are just plain uninformed, if not stupid and this guy is one of them. I extended the colloquy with the explanation that if he had a political or social view he wanted to communicate to me that he should do so in an individual email, rather than putting my email out there for all to see. It’s bad enough I’m, like you probably, bombarded with SPAM on a daily basis.
His response: “You’re just a damned Commie.”
The world becomes lovelier daily, eh?
