I would encourage Santosh and the rest of the hoax police to debunk every myth that comes across Goanet, so that we know fact from fiction.
Then I would suggest we use our common sense to see whether any suggestion that may have been made should be kept in mind. There was a good reason why some sage once said, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water". --- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Joe Vaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Unless of course, if one does not know what to do > >with the spare time and energy, and so one enjoys > >scrutinizing every such story. The point is: Use > >the lesson in the story, if there is one in it. > Why > >not respect that readers are intelligent enough to > >draw their own conclusions from a published > >story? > > > > I think the lessons that many reasonable people > would > draw from gratuitous posts such as the above, and > the > urban legends that it is trying to defend, are the > following: > > 1. Open public forums are infested with urban > legends > and hoaxes, and nobody can do anything to prevent > them > from being spread. > > 2. It is important for people to debunk these myths, > and expose the half-truths and lies contained in > them. > > 3. There are people in this world, some of whom may > be > habitual purveyors of such chain letters, and copied > and pasted material, themselves, who will > desperately > try to act as shills for this material. > > 4. No matter what anybody says, urban legends and > plagiarized material would continue to be > disseminated > by people who do not know what to do with their > spare > time and energy. > > 5. No matter how many advocates come out in force to > justify and defend the spread of chain letters, > urban > legends and hoaxes on Goanet, those of us who feel > duty bound to debunk this garbage would continue to > do > our part as well. > > Cheers, > > Santosh > >
