SWF -- Something Worth Forwarding

In effort to throw a bit of water on any flames I might have started with my Incendiary Viral Crap post, I'd like to start a new email phenomenon. I'm calling it Something Worth Forwarding (SWF).

Here are the rules for SWFs:

1. Each time you get an IVC, hit reply all and send SOMETHING WORTH FORWARDING to all of them with the acronym SWF at the beginning of the email. For instance, if you get an IVC, hit the reply button, enter some text containing USEFUL information (for our example, it's about junk emails), then change the subject to read "SWF: remove junk mail from your inbox".


2. It CANNOT contain anything relating to "Pass this onto 10 friends or ... " -- that is unless you're completely kidding and making fun of those types of emails.


3. It CANNOT be a petition of any kind.


4. It MUST contain helpful information that people can actually use in their lives. The information should be something every person, regardless of religious or political beliefs, can act on or participate in. I realize this is subjective but give it some serious thought as to whether you'd truly find the information useful.


5. When forwarding a SWF, click the forward button but before pressing send, please delete the addresses of everyone it was forwarded to previously which show up in the body of the message.

Occasionally, I will be posting SWFs here that I have forwarded onto those sending IVCs so you can have some fodder for your next SWF!