I usually write a response *once*. As in: "Please don't send me forwarded emails, because i don't have the time to go through them, so i don't read them. Thanks."
And any Fwd after that i just ignore.

I find even the funny pictures and jokes that they forward annoying. When it's somebody who doesn't bother say anything personal to you in months and they only send you stock jokes half of which are not even funny, it bothers me.

As for what to do, I simply delete them. If there's something really annoying (like that social security for illegal immigrants petition thing) I respond explaining why I think it's wrong. They usually stop forwarding such things for a while after that.

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Originally posted by Eldi:

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Originally posted by Dweller in Darkness:
I don't mind the political stuff, it's the crappy urband legend stuff about Barack Obama being Muslim, or "missing" children reports from 1998.

if my family sent me anything about obama being a muslim I'd first correct them, and then ask them why it matters what his religion is, and what they would think if I were a muslim.

When my brother came out, my mother took it pretty badly and to help her get over it I told her i was a muslim. THat was somehow more controversial. Heh.

I generally respond with a Snopes page or some similar rebuttal. There are some relatives that no longer send me anything, which is just fine by me, but it still grates.

Honestly jp? Send 'em one of those Japanese scat pics with a note "Since you're wasting my time with sh*t I thought I'd return the favor." Two or three times and they'll get the hint.

(Yes, I'm ultrasnarky tonight. Went without happy pills for 48 hrs and I have a heluva withdrawal hangover. Couldn't take it any more (blinking hurt) so I loaded up again a few minutes ago. Being addicted to painkillers is teh suck)

oh Fury - I feel your pain.

and the forwards that I do get from my two friends aren't just mindlessly forwarded, they both know I despise that, they only send it on if it's something that made them laugh.

but I do get forwarded crap (forcrap?) from a distant family member that can occasionally be funny, so I skim through the jokes stuff, but mostly I just delete them without even skimming.

And I have tried to tell him to just leave me off his list, he doesn't listen. I do get the odd "real" email, which is why he's not just blocked.

Eventually, I had to tell my mom that when Jesus actually sends her an email, she can forward that along. Until then...no thanks.

The Urband Legend stuff I actually go and dig up snopes.com and other things like that and send the reply. I'm the moderator for my family mailing list, after a while they stopped sending them to me or the list in general.

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Originally posted by Furious:
(Yes, I'm ultrasnarky tonight. Went without happy pills for 48 hrs and I have a heluva withdrawal hangover. Couldn't take it any more (blinking hurt) so I loaded up again a few minutes ago. Being addicted to painkillers is teh suck)

*hijack*

I so understand this problem. I started cutting my pills in half so I can take smaller doses to control the pain but not need so much to do so.

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Originally posted by Xine:
Eventually, I had to tell my mom that when Jesus actually sends her an email, she can forward that along. Until then...no thanks.

I Xine

Jesus isn't a big fan of spam emails.

he's more the blogging type. You gotta search these omnipresent types out a little harder than you'd think.