Nice Walden. I can’t believe how long it took some people in my family to stop forwarding crap to me. My Mom is pretty smart though. She decided to cut and paste forwarded stuff to me so that it didn’t “look” forwarded. I knew better.
Like the time she sent me that bogus email that she was having cataract surgery and I should “come visit” or “call her at home”! Yeah right Mom! I’m not falling for THAT one.
Funny stuff. I especially like the part at the end where it tells me to send it along to a friend. 
I have three family members who forward stuff to me constantly. I have asked them not to do it, telling them that under no circumstances do I open forwarded emails, but they continue to send them anyway. In several of the emails where they cut and paste to make them not look forwarded (you know, the urgent one where we should boycott Pepsi because they printed the Pledge of Allegiance on their soda cans without the phrase “under God”) I’ve replied with the appropriate link to snopes.com. In fact, I finally sent them an email giving them the link to snopes and suggested they look first before forwarding emails.
I’d love to send them Walden’s link, but they’re easily offended and I do hope to someday get an actual family information email from them.
Susan
I sympathize.
Download and install this free program:
http://www.mailwasher.net/
It will allow you to preview your messages without actually downloading them from your internet provider’s mail server (I think there are limitations with Hotmail and AOL in the free version of Mailwasher) so, you can review and delete the ones you don’t want, bounce the ones you want to send back to the originator so they think your mailbox is closed.
I’ve told a few people “If you send me crap… you’ll get it back” and it seems to have curtailed their urge to click ‘forward’ and put my name on their list.
I regularly gather jokes I receive and send them on to sundry others. What ticks me off is that the receivers often forward the same jokes in other emails back to me as though they couldn’t retain which jokes they had seen an hour before. This results in me getting the same jokes in different combinations over and over.
djm
Jokes, moss, whatever. What is important is that you maintain a link to you hunter/gatherer past! 