I rarely send a blast email along. I've begged one of my relatives to remove me from her list (she hasn't.) I especially abhor the ones that try and guilt you into not only returning the email to the sender with love but with some time constraint so that something evil won't happen, or for some blessing to supposedly occur at a certain hour and minute.

I enjoy good dialogue though, and have received many good jokes. The most recent I received was a newpaper clipping (I have no idea how old) titled "GET OUT OF THE CAR" it was hysterical, and I shared it IRL with those in the PT office, who also laughed hysterically. I guess all the cruddy ones are worth a gem that comes along once in a while.

I have a list of friends that I trust for emails, and I don't generally check out what they send me. If something isn't quite right, I let them know (ref their email.) I did this recently and the sender found some very interesting information from the site I had given as reference to rebuff what he'd sent! So we both garnered good from the experience.

Another one (type) that I dislike are those that are going to go to some company or alas the White House once it has 1000 signatures. Well, the White House and most companies have SIZE limits on the emails they will accept receipt for... so don't even bother with them, ok?

I'm glad that your SIL sent you the email and you gained good from it.
I personally have begged a former good friend of mine to add just a HI! to her forwards... nope. I blocked her.

Also, while I"m on my soap box here (my apologies ) People don't know how to forward an email!!!! If you are going to do this, REMOVE all the previous who sent it when to whom's! Also, the best way is to send it to yourself in the TO line, and make all the blast addresses as Blind Copies (BCC).

Ok, I THINK I'm done with this...but reserve the right to return to the thread should it remain interesting