Reply #8: I posted this in its own thread but I'll add it here as well.

[Pirate Smile]

Please REPLY to Obama email attack!!!

by Sue Deaunym
Fri Jan 11, 2008 at 03:49:12 AM PST

Even if you don't intend to vote for him!

If you have received the slandering email about Obama, send the following email (or your own version) back to the sender, and to any addy in the cc: or the text of the email:

You have sent me this email which is offends and frightens me, and which is simply wrong. It states - falsely - that Barack Obama is a radical Muslim who is a threat to America. These and other erroneous allegations were made by some cowardly and hateful scoundrel who has no understanding of, nor respect for, true Christian values or American ideals. If you go to www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp you'll find all of them refuted.

I'm assuming you forwarded this nastiness on to me, and our friends and family, out of ignorance, not with any malevolent intent. I'm also assuming you will make it right by acknowledging your error and sending an apology to me and to everyone else to whom you have passed this poison.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/11/6335/09564/375/434903

A comment within that thread:

And another way of dealing with Aunt Phoebe (1+ / 0-)
(like the name, btw!), is to send her a reply e-mail alerting her to the possibility that some hacker or political thug must be using her e-mail address to spew hate and lies in her name.

For, surely, Aunt Phoebe, you can't believe something this preposterous and ignorant, can you?

That's the way I've dealt with a few of those ugly chain letters from time to time. Funny how, if you give the sender some wiggle room, they'll sometimes retract and (I hope) be more wary in passing on that kind of crap.

Another comment:

Even better, if you have the time and are annoyed (1+ / 0-)
enough, because reply all only sends to the addresses listed in the last header:

Go through the email chain and extract every single address listed;
Go to yahoo mail and set up a temporary account;
Blast the response back at not just the person from whom you received it (and their friends and family) but every single person in the chain.
Duck, cover, and never, never again open that temporary email account. : ) Hell hath no fury like a winger exposed to fact.

I've done this a couple of times for messages I've received through my wingnut brother.