Sekedar informasi tentang banyaknya forward e-mail 'nggak jelas' yang sering masuk ke mailbox kita.... Saya juga sekedar nambahin : Banyak sekali reply-reply yang mencantumkan juga message-message terdahulu entah dari posting yang ke berapa... Jadi sebenarnya kita menerima posting yang sama berkali-kali (posting yang asli + copy di reply-reply yang ada). Belum lagi pesan-pesan sponsor yang ada di baris paling bawah (eGroups.com home.... , Get your free e-mail at hotmail.com!, Dual T3 hosting...dan banyak lagi...) Jadi dipotong dulu atuh... apalagi buat yang ngejawabnya cuma one-liner... sori kalo nggak ngenakin, tapi terus terang itu menyebalkan! Jadi,... save bandwith, please! > I have all too often seen e-mail chain letters passed through > our community. While these may seem harmless, they actually are a form of >socially-engineered computer virus. Like some of the recent crop of > true e-mail viruses, they result in many copies of the message being > distributed to the people in the recipient's address book, only it > takes advantage of the believing recipient rather than a malicious > program to accomplish it. > These chain letters often warn of a hoax virus (typically mentioning > warnings from AOL or Netscape) that cause catastrophic damage to any > machine that receives it. Or, they might be an urban legend (see #4 > below) or meaningless scam (#5). > Please DO NOT EVER FORWARD SUCH LETTERS to anybody, especially not a > large section of the people in your address book. They cost real money > in consuming internet bandwidth that Brown pays for, and they > additionally cost wasted time for every one of the recipients to read > it, delete it, or (worst case) believe it and forward it to all their > friends. > If the chain letter in question looks like it might be a legitimate > virus warning, please forward it to me *alone* to confirm its > authenticity for you before you pass it on. > The following is a message I received myself that spells out a lot of > the common chain letters and warns against getting sucked in by > them. > Please let me know if you have any questions, and please do your part > to prevent passing along such internet 'spam.' > Thank you very much. > Don > --- > 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. > 2. 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." > 3. 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. > 4. 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 bent on believing the > kidney-theft ring stories, please see > <<http://urbanlegends.tqn/>http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm > And I quote: > "The National Kidney Foundation has repeatedly issued requests for > actual victims or organ thieves to come forward and tell their > stories. None have. That's "NONE" as in "zero." Not even your friend's > cousin. > 5. 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.bi.net/forwards> Then if you make the recipe, > decide the cookies are that awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on. > 6. 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? > 7. There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you should never, ever, > ever forward any mail containing any virus warning unless you first > confirm that an actual site of an actual company that actually deals > with viruses. [Note from Don: forward such a warning to me if you > want to verify its authenticity] > 8. Do not regularly make your cc: list longer than the actual content > of your message. > 9. If you're using Outlook, IE or Netscape to write email, turn off > the "HTML encoding." [Note from Don: this is equivalent to 'formatted > text' in Eudora -- it's best to avoid changing fonts, colors, etc. in > a message, especially if you are sending it to any recipients outside > Maxcy] 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 more than likely forwarding me a copy of the Neiman Marcus > Cookie Recipe anyway. > 10. If you still absolutely MUST forward that 10th-generation message > from a friend, at least have the courtesy to trim the eight miles of > headers showing everyone else who's received it over the last six > 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 I've > probably already seen it. > 11. 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 also no > longer a "little boy" either. > 12. 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. > 13. If you are one of those people who forwards anything that promises > "something bad will happen if you don't," then stop it. Just stop it. > 14. 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 email 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, email > "signatures" are easily faked and mean nothing to anyone with any > power to do anything about whatever the competition is complaining about. > 15. Bottom Line: Composing email or posting something on the Web 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. GOT IT? GOOD. > -- > Don S. Rogers. Department Computing Coordinator > Brown University. Sociology. Population Studies > Social Science Research Lab. > <http://ssrl.pstc.brown.edu/> > phone 401.863.2550. fax 401.863.3213 -= Dual T3 Webhosting on Dual Pentium III 450 - www.indoglobal.com =- To unsubscribe, e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Netika BerInternet : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
