NO Alfa content(re: to virus warning in v7 #214)

["Mike Albrecht" <mike.albrecht@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Everytime I receive a message that is covered below, I send this to the 
 well-meaning offender.  When I saw the virus warning posted in AD v7 -214, 
 I thought I would share it with all.
 
 
 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. 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 insistent 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.
 
 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 cookies are that awesome, feel 
 free to pass the recipe on. (But I hear they stink.)
 
 4. We all know all 500 ways to drive your roommates crazy, irritate 
 co-workers, 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. Even 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 virii. 
 Try: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
 And even then, don't forward it. We don't care.
 
 7. If your CC: list is regularly longer than the actual content of your 
 message, you're probably going to be punished eternally. (Ever heard of 
 BCC:?)
 
 8. If you're using Outlook, IE, or Netscape to write email, turn off "HTML 
 encoding." 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 
 probably forwarding us a copy of the Neiman-Marcus Cookie Recipe anyway.
 
 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 ">" that begin each line. Besides, if 
 it has gone around that many times, we've probably already seen it.
 
 10. Last but not least please check to see who sent you the last great 
 joke or cookie recipe you received before you send it back to the original 
 sender.
 
 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

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