Fw: I think this is important. (fwd)
Posted by: mpeveto <mpeveto@...>
Well, your friendly neighborhood moderator is still alive. 🙂 i hope you
all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and have a wonderful christmas! i wanted
to pass this along because i get a lot of emails like the one's this talks
about. While I wouldn't hav eworded it quite they way this person does, I
think it has valuable information in it.
If you'd like to comment on it, or have anything to add, reply to me
directly.
thanks.
Mark Peveto
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gidget" <gidget@piglet.asarian.org>
To: "mark peveto" <mpeveto@bellsouth.net>
Cc: "pat wilett" <jacpatt@juno.com>; "rob whiet" <raw7777@aol.com>; "michael
gowen" <mgowen@npc.org>; "charlie adams" <chujan@evestamail.com>
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 5:29 PM
Subject: I think this is important. (fwd)
>
> Thought this was important and good
> Terri
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 13:42:26 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Sarah J. Blake" <grayce@iquest.net>
> To: "Sarah's.friends": ;
> Subject: I think this is important.
>
> I'm lazy, so I'm borrowing someone else's words because I think they're
> very articulate about something important. I don't know who wrote this,
> but it is something for all of us to keep in mind while checking our
> email.
>
>
> Sarah J. Blake
> http://www.growingstrong.org
>
> They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength.
>
>
> 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. 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. 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 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 their cousin. If you are think you MUST believe the kidney-theft ring
> stories, please see:
>
> urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm
>
> 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.
>
> 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 chainletter?
>
> 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.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. 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, IE, 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. 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. The American Cancer Society will NOT give $$ for reasearch for every
> email circulated and signed saying that they will...if anything they
> NEED
> money sent to THEM.
>
> 14. The little boy in Summerfield, Florida who is 'missing' was only
> actually away from his mom for a few days...over a year ago...and
> even though there is nothing wrong with praying for this kid, people
> are
> praying for the wrong thing if they are praying that he will be returned
> home
> to his mother.
>
> 15. There is no bill pending before Congress that will allow
> long-distance companies to charge you for 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.
>
>