[Rathji]

My mom and grandma used to send me these. I sat them down and said:

"Look, I don't care how much you send me, I don't care what it is, but if I do have one rule about email that comes to me if it is forwarded to you, you must not forward it to me. You must take the entire contents of the email, remove any arrows ( >>>> ) from the beginning of each line and the addresses of the 72 people who forwarded it to you. You may then send me whatever is left. If you cannot do this, then I will put your email into my spam box and that means I will never get any important email from you. This is your choice."

Now that is a lot to ask of someone who is used to just hitting 2 buttons to send this hideous (and quite useless) email to their entire contact list. Now my mother only sends me things that are worth her time to clean up. My grandmother, bless her soul, ended up in the spam box, so I only need to talk to her when my Grandpa opens an attachment on his email or deletes his entire inbox of get rich scams he bought off the internet.