Fw: Email facts of life

[Leslie W Bartlett]

 With all the hoaxes going round, thought this might be worth having.
   E-mail Facts of Life

     1.  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.

     2.  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 still insist on
         believing the kidney-theft ring stories, please see:
         http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm
         And we 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.

     3.  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 at:        http://www.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html
         Then, if you make the recipe, decide the cookies are that
         awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on.

     4.  We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy,
         irritate co-workers, gross out bathroom stall neighbors and
         creep out people on an elevator. We also know exactly how many
         engineers, college students, etc. it takes to change a light
bulb.

     5.  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?

     6.  There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never,
         ever, ever forward any e-mail containing any virus warning
         unless you first confirm it at an actual site of an actual
         company that actually deals with viruses.
         Try:                http://www.nai.com/vinfo/
         And even then, don't forward it.

     7.  If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of
         your message, you probably shouldn't use e-mail.

     8.  If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write e-mail, turn
         off the "HTML encoding." Those of us on Unix shells 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.

     9.  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 - we've probably already seen it.

     10. Craig Shergold in England is not dying of cancer or anything
         else at this time and would like everyone to stop sending him
         their business cards. He apparently is also no longer a "little
         boy" either.



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