A friend of mine sent me the following items and thought they were worth sharing, since too many people abuse email...and you know who you are. Bottom line: don't believe every email you get. Read this and stop flooding people's email boxes:
Big companies don't do business via chain letter. Bill Gates is
not giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation.
There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks. You can
relax; there is no need to pass it on "just in case it's true".
Furthermore, just because someone said in the message, four
generations back, that "we checked it out and it's legit", does
not actually make it true.
There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking
up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it
happened to their cousin. If you are hellbent on believing the
kidney-theft ring stories, go here.
And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued
requests for actual victims of organ thieves to come forward and tell
their stories. None have." That's "none" as in "zero". Not even your
friend's cousin.
Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even
if they do, we all have it. And even if you don't, you can get a copy here. Then, if you make the recipe,
decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on.
We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy, irritate
co-workers and creep out people on an elevator. We also know exactly
how many engineers, college students, Usenet posters and people from
each and every world ethnicity it takes to change a lightbulb
Even if the latest NASA rocket disaster(s) DID contain plutonium
that went to particulate over the eastern seaboard, do you REALLY
think this information would reach the public via an AOL chain-letter?
There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever,
ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first
confirm it at an actual site of an actual company (like Norton) that actually deals with viruses. And even then, don't forward it. I don't care.
If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of
your message, you're probably going to hell.
If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write email, turn off
the "HTML encoding." Those of us on Unix shells or internet mail can't
read it, and don't care enough to save the attachment and then view it
with a web browser, since you're probably forwarding us a copy of the
Neiman Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.
If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message
from a friend, at least have the decency to trim the eight miles of
headers showing everyone else who's received it over the last 6 months.
It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the ">" that begin each line.
Besides, if it has gone around that many times, I've probably already
seen it.
If your going to be all cute with your typing, DON'T. The word "cool"
is spelled "C-O-O-L" not "kwel". This only makes you look like the
jackass you already are.
