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 Subject: FW: to all who ever had spamed
 Greetings!

 This is one of those emails that is vitally
 important and informative for all to read. This is not
 one of those cheesy get rich schemes, but mainly
 to inform you of some basic facts about email and
 messaging problems...

 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. 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."

 Furthermore, 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.

 2. 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
 hell-bent on believing the kidney-theft ring
 stories, please see:

 http://urbanlegends.tqn.com/library/weekly/aa062997.htm

 And I quote: "The National Kidney Foundation has
 repeatedly issued requests for actual victims of organ
 thieves to come forward and tell their stories.
 None have." That's "none" as in "zero." Not even your
 friend's cousin. Besides, if you were to wake
 up in ice, you would die of  Hypothermia!!!

 3. 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.bl.net/forwards/cookie.html

 Then, if you make the recipe, decide the ookies
 are that awesome, feel free to pass the recipe on.

 4. We all know all 500 ways to drive your
 roommates crazy, irritate coworkers, gross out
 bathroom stall neighbors and creep out people on an
 elevator. We also know exactly how many engineers,
 college students, Usenet posters and people from each
 and every world ethnicity it takes to change a light
 bulb.

 5. 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?

 6. There is no "Good Times" virus. In fact, you
 should never, ever, ever forward any email containing
 any virus warning unless you first confirm
 it at an actual site of an actual company that
 actually deals with viruses.

 Try:
 http://www.norton.com

 And even then, don't forward it. We don't care.
 And you cannot get a virus from a flashing IM or
 email, you have to download....ya know, like a FILE!

 7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than
 the actual content of your message, you're probably
 going to Hell.

 9. If you still absolutely MUST forward that
 10th-generation message from a friend, at least have
 the decency to trim the eight miles of headers
 showing everyone else who's received it over the last
 6 months.

 > > >>
 > > >> It sure wouldn't hurt to get rid of all the ""
 > > >> (or the >) that begin each line. Besides, if it
 > > >> has gone around that many times-we've probably
 > > >> already seen it.
 > > >>
 > > >>

 10. 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.

 11. The "Make a Wish" foundation is a real
 organization doing fine work, but they have had to
 establish a special toll free hotline 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.

 12. If you are one of those insufferable idiots
 who forwards anything that promises "something bad
 will happen if you don't," then something bad will
 happen to you if I ever meet you in a dark alley.

 13. 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.

 14. Febreeze does not kill or maim animals.
 Check with your local vet if in doubt.

 As a general rule, email "signatures" are easily faked
 and mean nothing to anyone with any power to do
 anything about whatever the petition is complaining
 about. (P.S. There is no bill pending before Congress
 that will allow long distance companies to charge you
 for long distance when using the Internet.)

 Bottom Line ... composing Email or posting something
 on the Net is as easy as writing on the walls of a
 public restroom. Don't automatically believe
 it unless it's proven true...ASSUME it's false,
 unless there is proof that it's true.

 Got it?

 Good.  Now, forward this message to ten friends
 and you will win the Publishers Clearing House
 sweepstakes.

 > > >> HAHAHAHA!!!!!
 > > >
 > >
 >