Interesting advice from Snopes.com
sweetp...@spamknology.net
Advice from Snopes.com <http://snopes.com/>
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 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, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for
telemarketers and spammers - - to vali date 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 th em; 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 don't make it easy for them!
Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT accept able to Congress or any other
organization. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and
full address of the person signing the petition.
Read the full story here:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp
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empties today of its strength."
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Nann Bell
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/false.asp
Notice that word false in the URL? Yup, this 'advice from snopes' was not
from them - it's all another person trying to trade on snopes acceptibility.
Interestingly enough, if you follow the link given at the end of the original
post you DO get to snopes internet petition page, which has somewhat
different advice from tat qoted in the email.
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:54:30 -0400, sweetp...@SPAMknology.net wrote
(in message <d7517$48acaeb4$45491df5$28...@KNOLOGY.NET>):
sweetp...@spamknology.net
Gwen
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it
empties today of its strength."
(Corrie Ten Boom)
"Nann Bell" <hanbell...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:0001HW.C4D25086...@news.east.earthlink.net...
Nann Bell
(in message <60851$48add745$45491df5$30...@KNOLOGY.NET>):
> Nann, I sent that on. Thanks.
> Gwen
>
>
you're welcome. I've no idea why I looked it up - I think there was just
something about how things were worded that didn't sound like snopes to me.