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----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Miller" <millerb@netusa1.net>
To: <FODFARTS@cs.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 20, 2000 11:14 AM
Subject: Virus Warnings
>
> Things you need to know about e-mails, etc.
>
> 1. Big companies don't do business via chain letters. Bill Gates is not
> giving you $1000, and Disney is not giving you a free vacation.
> Hershey's is not sending you free M&M's. There is no baby food company
> issuing class-action checks. Procter and Gamble is not part of a
satanic
> cult or scheme, and its logo is not satanic. You can relax; there is no
> need to pass it on "just in case it's true." Furthermore, just because
> someone said in a 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
> his or her cousin. If you are insistent on believing the kidney-theft
> ring stories, please see: http://www.urbanlegends.com/medical/ Click on
> "Organ Theft" and then on "New Orleans Debunk." And I quote: "After an
> investigation into these allegations, the New Orleans Police Department
> has found them to be COMPLETELY WITHOUT MERIT AND WITHOUT FOUNDATION. "
> So no one has had their kidneys stolen in New Orleans. 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. 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: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ 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. There is no gang initiation plot to murder any motorist who flashes
> headlights at another car driving at night without lights.
>
> 7. If you're using Outlook, I.E., or Netscape to write email, 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.
>
> 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 either.
> 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 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 insufferable idiots 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.
>
> 12. 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. http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
> (P.S. There is no bill pending before Congress that will allow
> long-distance companies to charge you for using the Internet. And
> Madelyn Murray O'Hare's atheist organization does not have a petition
> #2493 pending before Congress. #2493 was in 1974 by someone else)...
>
> 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.
>
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