-----Original Message-----
From: MacNabb, Elizabeth
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 9:40 AM
To:
Cc: 'mary'
Subject: FW: To Forward or Not To Forward
Friends and Loved Ones, this note comes from a friend and brilliant former
student who now is an exec in a non-profit that hosts an informational,
international website for journalists who need background history, etc., on
current events, people and places in the news (http://www.facsnet.org --
check it out!)
Anyway, these sites are great and I thought you might want to keep them on
hand (scholars in the bunch may find them especially useful!) Best, --E.
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Elizabeth L. MacNabb, PhD
Assistant Director for Service Learning
Lecturer, Jepson School
G29-B Richmond Hall, University of Richmond
Richmond VA 23173
804-289-8686, fax 804-287-6465
www.cdc.richmond.edu/service/servlearn.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Jacobson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 8:16 PM
To: Mona Mansour; Pat Jacobson; Ruth Shure; Jennifer Pranolo; Sam
Alexander; Terry Stanley; Timothy Sanford; Megan Woolhouse; Dayna Simon;
Leslie Montgomery; Jennifer Bunting; Elizabeth MacNabb; Peter McCarty;
Paul Davis
Subject: To Forward or Not To Forward
Hi, folks,
After receiving yet ANOTHER email hoax in the form of an unsolicited
forward from a friend (this on the alleged atrocities committed by KFC
against poor, defenseless chickens), I remembered that several of you
have asked me for information about how to check out the legitimacy of
information in email forwards.
The rest of you are receiving this UNSOLICITED information as a gift
from me because you probably fall into one of two main groups: you are
either receiving annoying forwards or sending them. :)
Out of the hundreds of unsolicited forwards I have recieved, I have only
gotten ONE that was legitimate and that is no exaggeration. (Since I
know you will ask, it was an invitation to go to the UN website and
click on a button to help hunger. For every click, charitable groups
have agreed to donate one-fourth of a cent or something.) As for the
rest of the e-claims (save NPR, Disney and Microsoft are giving away a
zillion dollars, etc., etc.), they are patently false.
Luckily, there are a number of resources to help stop the counterfiet
buck with you. I assure you, after you visit any of these websites, you
will be UNLIKELY to ever again forward a forward. You might be surprised
to find out how many of your forwards are crap.
I suggest the following resources to determine Internet hoaxes:
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/index.html
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/culture/urbanlegends/
http://www.Europe.Datafellows.com/news/hoax.htm
I encourage bookmarking these sites, which are updated frequently.
Chances are, by the time a forward has gotten to you, they already know
about it and have researched the sources so it's relatively easy to find
out if there's a kernel/colonel (pardon the KFC pun) of truth in the
information.
See the following URL if you're interested in the KFC hoax in particular
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/kfc.html
Well, it's not exactly the "I Have A Dream" speech, but in honor of
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I hope this info helps all of us live out
peaceful, productive lives as cyberneighbors! Happy surfing!
Mare
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Mary Jacobson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Managing Editor, FACSNET http://www.facsnet.org
85 S. Grand Ave. voice: +1.626.584.0010.x11
Pasadena, CA 91105 fax: +1.626.584.0627
