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On 2004-06-03 said:
This seems to come around every few years, maybe even every
presidential election cycle.
Yah and it's always the same text, Nina TOtenberg said it just the
other day, on and on, yawn.


I guess this is an appropriate time to post this:
The following has made the rounds recently and is purportedly penned
by a college instructor with help from his networking class.

Hi Folks. I am sure that some of you who receive this will see that
some parts of this message apply to you.
Please do not be insulted, as this is just a general list of rules to
live by when you are on-line, or sending e-mail.

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. MTV will not give
you backstage passes if you forward something to the most people. 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 are hell-bent on believing the kidney-theft ring
stories, please visit:
http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aaO62997.htm
"http://urbanlegends. tqn.com/library/weekly/aaO62997"
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, and decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the
recipe on.



4. 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?

5. There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever,
ever forward any email containing any virus warning unless you first
confirm that an actual site of an actual company that actually deals
with viruses. Try looking at:
http://www.norton.com/"http://www.norton.com" And even then, don't
forward it. We don't care. And you cannot get a virus from a flashing
IM or email, you have to download.... ya know, like, a FILE!

6. If your cc: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your
message, you're probably going to Hell.

7. If you're using Outlook, EE, or Netscape to write e-mail, turn off
the "HTML encoding," Those of us on Unixshell 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.


8. 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.

9. Craig Shergold (or Sherwood, or Sherman, etc.) 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.

10. The "Make a Wish" foundation is a real organization doing fine work,
but they have had to establish a special toll free hot line in response
to the large number of Internet hoaxes using their good name and
reputation. It is distracting them from the important work they do.

11. If you are one of those people who forwards anything that promises
"something bad will happen if you don't," then something bad will happen
to you if I ever meet you in a dark alley. This includes prayers for
"good luck" as the Bible is not a luck book.

12. Women really are suffering in Afghanistan, and PBS and NEA funding
are still vulnerable to attack (although not at the present time) but
forwarding an e-mail won't help either cause in the least. If you want
to help, contact your local legislative representative, or get in touch
with Amnesty International or the Red Cross. As a general rule, e-mail
"signatures" are easily faked and mean nothing to anyone with any power
to do anything about whatever the competition is complaining about.

13. There is no bill pending before Congress that will allow long
distance companies to charge you for long distance when using the
Internet.)

Bottom Line ... composing e-mail or posting something on the Net is as
easy as writing on the walls of a public restroom. Don't automatically
believe it until it's proven false... ASSUME it's false, unless there is
proof that it's true. Got it? Good. Besides, I am sure your friends
would rather read a few lines about how you are and what you are doing
than just forwarded jokes all the time!

Now, forward this message to ten friends and you will win the
Publishers' Clearing House sweepstakes... NOT!


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Regards,






Richard Webb
Electric Spider Productions
REplace anything before the @ symbol with elspider for real email

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