Many people forward jokes, etc & leave on all the addresses of other people who have received the fwd email. When a person who has a virus in their computer receives such an email with all those email addresses (sometimes forwarded 4-6 times & you have to click, click, click to get to the one that has the email you were sent), the virus can then pick up all those addresses & email itself to all those people, probably none of whom you know!
The best way to send 'group' emails is to put To: All My Friends (ie) & list all the actual group email addresses in the CC: The reason for this is when others receive the group email, none of the other recipients' email addresses show & a virus cannot see the email addresses either! I checked this out with my server techs. Also, when you receive a fwd message you want to pass on, be sure to delete the sender's name(s) & email address(s) that appear at the top of the actual message with the date, etc. That way, the people's addresses won't be passed on. Kathy Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windraider Kennels California www.windraiderkennels.com Bernese Mtn Dogs - Int Am BIS Can CH Windraider's Black Oak v Bevs , HIT, CGC, TDI "Tobin" Windraider's Manjula v Bev's "Jul" Windraider's Seven Seas Briggand "Briggand" 7 mo Windraider's Black Oak Conspiracy "Brenna" 7 mo Flat Coated Retv - Int Am CH Twofold Samba Sam, CGC, TDI "Sam" (liver-DK imp) Pembroke W. Corgi - Annline's Extra Well Done "Miles" (FI imp) r/w 13 mo Labs & Eskie - Scout, Babe & Klondike