Re: (no subject) --- Stop spamming

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Rene to a third party:
>
> Sure. Except that your hoax message IS the virus -- and you are passing it on.
> Here is an idea for you: If you are clueless about software, and somebody
> asks you to pass a computer related message on to "everybody in your
> address book", don't do it. Too difficult?
>

Right! Ignore any and every message that asks you to pass things on to
everybody on your address book. When you receive amny message from
anybody about a supposed virus, always go here first!

http://www.snopes.com/index.html

And remember this too: if the message has been forwarded to you by
someone who has already forwarded to everybody on their mailing less,
it's odds-on that the message has been around the world more than once.

Recommended reading: Melissa Scott, "The Jazz" (New York: Tor Books,
2001). A cyber-thriller set in the near future, in which spreading
Internet Rumours is key to the plot.


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