SKIRMISHER

You have friends, officemates, cousins, email-savvy chicken manure collector who send you unbearably cloying or dumb forwarded emails you don’t or simply can’t care about. You know, forwards about how Jesus loves you and all that crap that if you don’t forward to a gazillion more people and further contaminate the system, your balls will end up in an angry donkey’s chewing mouth.

Apparently, the guys at 43 folders are also so fed up about it that they’ve actually made the nice gesture of putting up Thanks, No. Here’s a glimpse of what’s in store for those you’re about to reject:

Hi. The person who sent you this link is a friend who likes you a lot but who wants you to respect their email address, their privacy, and their time.

Chances are, this person asked you to visit this page because you did one of these things:

• Forwarded a funny story, a virus warning, or a photo that you enjoyed
• Sent email to lots of people using the “To:” line (instead of the “BCC:” line), thereby exposing your friend’s email address to strangers
• CC’d your friend unnecessarily on something you had sent primarily to someone else

In any case, you might want to go back and have another look at the email they’re replying to. They asked you to visit here because, while they love getting one-on-one, personal messages from you, they really don’t want to receive more messages like the one you just sent. Cool?

Now, there’s a need that’s just been filled. Next time somebody forwards you something that gets your goat, be polite and just send them the link to the Thanks, No site. After all, we’re not animals; we say “go to hell” in a nice way whenever we can.

Stumble it!