I was just debunking an e-mail forward from my mom about roach eggs in envelope glue when I noticed that the Snopes site has redesigned. Very nice.
I was just debunking an e-mail forward from my mom about roach eggs in envelope glue when I noticed that the Snopes site has redesigned. Very nice.
brigita
May 9, 2001 — 2:23 pm
i love snopes…but i think my friends hate me for always responding to their forwards with a variation on “this is just a rumor, shame on you.”
Kris
May 21, 2001 — 5:55 am
I know. I’ve gotten myself removed from a lot of e-mail lists that way. I alienated half of my PW girls by shooting down their “deodorant causes breast cancer” insanity, and I think yesterday I got myself taken off the family list. Oh well. Ours is a lonely job, and somebody’s gotta tell these people that spam SUCKS ASS.
brigita
May 10, 2001 — 8:33 am
it just makes me so sad to learn that my friends would buy crap like that…and yet i’m more gullible than the next girl…
i just remember a friend taking me to taks for perpetuating the “NPR and the NEA are going down the tubes!” e-mail. ever since then i’ve been a MAJOR net skeptic. did you ever get the e-mail about the lesbian and the lobster? i went APEshit when i got that one…
Kris
May 10, 2001 — 9:51 am
Yeah, I think I’ve gotten that one. Something about lots of icky little babies? *shudder*
The ones that really annoy me are the “forward to everyone you know and get a free gift certificate from the GAP” bullshit. I take great pride in shooting those down within, like, a minute of receiving them. I usually try to forward to everybody else on the message too (just to spread the bitchery around), unless there are a million address on it, which there usually are.
brigita
May 10, 2001 — 2:31 pm
i know–how in the dark about e-mail and internet technology do you have to be to believe that one?