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truth or fiction
« on: January 10, 2010, 11:44:07 AM »
I think we all need to observe this closer!!!
 
 
           This is the reason that I do not forward this kind of list, even though it may be something that I support.   
  Advice From Snopes and TruthorFiction

   
  By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with www.snopes.com <http://www.snopes.com> and/or www.truthorfiction.com <http://www.truthorfiction.com> for determining whether information received via email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites. Below is their advice for us.



1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.

2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, a way to get names and ' cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.

You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!

If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM!

Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(S) to those types of listings regardless how inviting they might sound!

You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let's stop making it easy for them!

****Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other organization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address Of the person signing the petition.

 
 
   
 

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Re: truth or fiction
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2010, 12:25:27 PM »
I receive many "forward this"  I delete 99% .
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Re: truth or fiction
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2010, 12:52:13 PM »
I receive many "forward this"  I delete 99% .

I delete 100% of them.

Also seems like that is the only type email that I get from some "friends"...... forwarded bullsh*t.


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Re: truth or fiction
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2010, 02:51:16 PM »
I delete 100% also, but now I have a text I can send back to the person who sent me the email.

 Perhaps they will stop handing out my email address to the spammers

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Re: truth or fiction
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2010, 05:17:02 PM »
It's not advice from Snopes like it says. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/false.asp
""It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency." - George Washington. Letter to Alexander Hamilton, Friday, May 02, 1783

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Re: truth or fiction
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Re: truth or fiction
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2010, 05:57:13 PM »
So I guess you are saying that I am not getting $5 million for helping transfer funds for a deposed rolyal?  I better put a stop payment on my check for $10k.  DOH!
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