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These seem to be good, common sense guidelines to follow when dealing with
e-mails, chain letters, viruses (or virii), etc.
I apologize to the list, but I couldn't help myself..
Regards
Guy
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EMAIL 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 are
insistent on believing the kidney-theft ring stories, please
see: http://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 & 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. (But I hear they stink.)
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, Usenet posters, and
people from each and every world ethnicity 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 email containing any virus
warning unless you first confirm it at an actual site of
an actual company that actually deals with virii. Try:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
And even then, don't forward it. We don't care.
7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual
content of your message, you're probably going to be punished
eternally. (Ever heard of BCC:?)
8. If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write email,
turn off "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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