Help me respond to this extremely racist email - Page 2

[TiredX2]

Edit: If I wanted to go overboard I could have the card be a picture of my kids, each wearing clothing associated with different religions. I'd have to think of a quote to put under it.

Wow, that would be such a cool card. If you do it--- post the picture!

[AnnMarie]

Originally posted by TiredX2
Wow, that would be such a cool card. If you do it--- post the picture!

If someone can give me some ideas that are easy and cheap I will do it. I have no money to spend so I'll have to make the clothing with whatever I have at home. Any ideas?

[CerridwenLorelei]

darn it I want to see the stamp but when I go

to the link I get ads instead : British Airways and AOL

Where's the stamp??? What have they done in the corner where it was??


I got this email awhile back too. My aunt's DD got a full military scholarship. So I get slammed with tons of stuff like this.
In my case it was simple though I am sure it won't work for you.

"Please cease and desist sending me anything Muslim hate related. Please remember that I married into a family that has ArabAmerican members and Muslim followers. I happen to be very fond of them. And if I want to know anything I have a reliable source I can ask."

[captain optimism]

I might have posted this idea here before, but here goes:

Dear FIL,

Thanks for alerting me to this terrible biased email that's making the rounds. It is pretty scary, isn't it, that such a thing could happen in US, where we value freedom of religion? Luckily, I think, most people here are like you and me and don't buy into this kind of prejudice. Unfortunately there's no way to write back to the original author of this email. But maybe we can show our opposition to his thinking by buying some of those Eid stamps? Just a thought.

See you at Thanksgiving,

Love,

adventuregirl

[AnnMarie]

Re: darn it I want to see the stamp but when I go

Originally posted by CerridwenLorelei

Where's the stamp??? What have they done in the corner where it was??

http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/po...sp?OID=2689760

[merpk]

So nobody is responding to my suggestion about the ISP's (Internet Service Providers).

Is there anybody here who knows enough about e-mail or the Internet or whatever to know if there's some way to get the ISP of the original e-mail?

These things must be traceable.

That would also be a response, possibly one with wider applicability and implications.

Anyone?

[AnnMarie]

Originally posted by merpk

Is there anybody here who knows enough about e-mail or the Internet or whatever to know if there's some way to get the ISP of the original e-mail?

That would be impossible. This thing has been going around for a while and you have to back track through every person to find out who first sent it. Not going to happen.

[Ms. Mom]

Amy, I'll ask my husband when he get's back from Amsterdam (I think tomorrow ) He should know for sure. What I understand is that there are ways to 'fool' the computer into thinking an email came from a different source (as is the case in many worm viruses). However, If I remember correctly my husband said "anything is tracable if you know how". He's a geek and most likely knows how.:

However, I don't know what can be done. There are no laws broken with these letters. I wish there was something we could do to stop messages like this from being spread around.

[Ms. Mom]

As I'm typing my reply an email comes in

>SCAM
>IMPORTANT
>
>I hate those hoax e-mail warnings, but this one is important.
>
>Send this warning to everyone on your e-mail list.
>
>If a man comes to your front door and says he is conducting a survey and
>asks you to show him your boobs, do not show him your boobs.
>
>This is a scam; he only wants to see your boobs.
>
>I wish I'd gotten this yesterday. I feel so stupid & cheap.
>

Bad Moderator going off topic, but I did think this was

[AnnMarie]

Originally posted by Ms. Mom
[B] What I understand is that there are ways to 'fool' the computer into thinking an email came from a different source (as is the case in many worm viruses). However, If I remember correctly my husband said "anything is tracable if you know how". He's a geek and most likely knows how.:

Right, that's very easy to do, but the headers tell where it came from. Still, it's impossible to trace all the way back to the original sender. You'd have to do a reverse spam asking everyone who it came from. :LOL

[Lucysmama]

Originally posted by captain optimism


Dear FIL,

Thanks for alerting me to this terrible biased email that's making the rounds. It is pretty scary, isn't it, that such a thing could happen in US, where we value freedom of religion? Luckily, I think, most people here are like you and me and don't buy into this kind of prejudice. Unfortunately there's no way to write back to the original author of this email. But maybe we can show our opposition to his thinking by buying some of those Eid stamps? Just a thought.

See you at Thanksgiving,

Love,

adventuregirl

What a great idea! I love it!!!!!

[adventuregirl]

captain optimism, I love the idea!

I don't know anything about tracing, but I think it would be difficult since its been around for so long.

Anyway, I'm working on it and will post when I have the finished product, my time is limited and the longer I wait, the easier it is to present it in a "nicer" way.

[PaganScribe]

Chiming in late here

but I was just coming in here to post about this email being sent from a coworker to our entire staff -- and I work at a public school. So much for celebrating diversity among our students, huh?

I wrote back a pretty curt response, and replied to all. Several others in my builiding did as well. The best one I saw was very curt, but quite to the point:

"Disguising religious bigotry as patriotism is inexcusable and pathetic. If you must forward, please send only to people you know share your ignorance and small-minded views, and spare the rest of us."

[AnnMarie]

Re: Chiming in late here

Originally posted by PaganScribe

"Disguising religious bigotry as patriotism is inexcusable and pathetic. If you must forward, please send only to people you know share your ignorance and small-minded views, and spare the rest of us."