[20467] in APO-L
FW: [Fwd: [Fwd: Fwd: Tax on net]]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ellen Kranzer)
Mon Apr 12 15:05:24 1999
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 14:58:20 -0400
Reply-To: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
From: Ellen Kranzer <ellen_kranzer@HARVARD.EDU>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
>> > > "THIS IS IMPORTANT PLEASE JOIN TOGETHER IN THIS"
>> > >
>> > > CNN reported that within the next 2 weeks, Congress is going to vote
>> on
>> > > allowing telephone companies to charge for Internet access. That means
>> > > everytime we send a long distance e-mail, we will receive a long
>> > > distance
>> > > charge.
This thing is a chain letter that has been around for years. As a rule you
should be suspicious of anything that requests that you pass it on to
everyone you know. Sometimes these messages are completely bogus, other
times they were relevent once but the information has either become outdated
or mutated so that there is no longer anything to them.
Things that should make you suspicious:
-- a request to forward as widely as possible
-- no indication of the original author
-- a claim that an event will happen within a specific time period, but
their are no specific dates in the message
-- citing an authority like CNN with out a specific time/date/place of
publication reference (and if there is one, check it out to see if it's a
legit citation).
-- an offer of some third party getting something because the email was
forwarded
There are some good web sites with information on internet chainletters and
hoaxes. If you aren't sure if something is legit you can check those. One
nice site is: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/
Y.I.S.
Ellen c.c. Kranzer
APO-L Administrator
