A virtual e-mail address "list" made up of the sender and all recipients of an e-mail, as well as all those to whom the e-mail is forwarded. An e-mail tree is not a mass mailing list as such, but they share a common characteristic: not everyone on the list knows each other personally. If we're part of (in, on) the same e-mail tree, there's a chain of people who know someone who knows someone who knows someone -- at least one of whom is likely to know you personally and another who knows me personally.
It's not quite as if the people in an e-mail tree are cousins of cousins of cousins, but a family tree analogy holds up pretty well. Two days ago I was at a funeral attended by 23 of my cousins. Those cousins have cousins who aren't my cousins -- and there are some of the latter that I don't care for. The same sort of thing holds true for e-mail trees.
Combining e-mail trees (grafting?) into a single list makes a new e-mail tree. Unless they're pruned, e-mail trees monotonically increase in size with time. One e-mail tree I'm part of has 800+ e-mail addresses, more than 700 of which still seem to be working.
If you have a grumble about being part of an e-mail tree, don't take it out on me. I didn't put you there. Take it up with the person who did, not with me.
This message is brought to you by the letters A, B, and C -- and by me,
Vinnie B
Примеры использования:
Are e-mail trees used for affinity fraud? Probably not that much. Would you trust someone with your money just because you received something from an e-mail forwarder? | You are receiving this e-mail because you and I are on the same e-mail tree. The "murder victim" e-mail we received tells a tale that is not true, even though some elements may be true. By forwarding such e-mails, we send spam to friends. We are also likely to pass along viruses to them.
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