proper etiquette for forwarding email 'forwards'

How to forward 'forwards'...

I enjoy many of the forwarded email I receive from friends and co-workers. But they should really be cleaned up before being sent, i.e. strip them down of all of the garbage text and friends of friends email addresses and more important, send links instead of attachments.

Continuing to send large attachments is what clogs up email inboxes and the related mail servers, they make your inbox run slower and IT/Communication departments at work can isolate many of the offenders by mail file size.

Here are some tips...

1. Strip out all of the forwarded text, email addresses, etc...from the body of the email.
   
2. Then find the video on the internet, post the link in your new message.
3. And finally, remove the attachment altogether.

Doing it this way (properly) is probably on average 100 times smaller than just clicking the forward button and sending attachments on their way. Think about it, you are sending a large media file, a video, which you could not have done 10-15 years ago vs. a line of text.
For Example:
I received a forward email today with this video named Capoeira Fighter.wmv attached. You can Google the title: Capoeira Fighter and if the video doesn't come up, add additional identifying words, such as "show off". I immediately found it on youtube.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2VwnBU1-iU

Check out my example below.

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Example forward:

This video is hilarious. Watch this guy show off and then get knocked out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2VwnBU1-iU

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Tell your friends who are offenders of this simple practice as well. After all this is the type of work behavior that ends up causing extra rules on everyone. Like attachment size limit, etc...