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15 Aug 00 - 01:48 PM (#278256) Subject: E-mail fees From: Thomas the Rhymer There is legislation afoot that seeks to charge us 5 cents per e-mail. USPS is complaining mightily about loss of 100's of millions of dollars a year, and I imagine the phone company(s) is/are upset... I think this is an outrage, and I'm not alone, Write to your particular fair skinned rep in Washington DC, if you like free e-mail, O.K.? |
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15 Aug 00 - 01:55 PM (#278264) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: Kim C Thomas, I think this is one of those urban myth hoaxes. |
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15 Aug 00 - 02:05 PM (#278270) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: Amergin No it was on the news..... |
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15 Aug 00 - 02:12 PM (#278281) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: GUEST http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/emailtax.html |
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15 Aug 00 - 03:56 PM (#278345) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: SeanM This one pokes it's head up frequently these days. A great place to check on this kind of thing is www.snopes.com, one of the closest to authoritative Urban Legend sources I've found online. M |
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15 Aug 00 - 03:57 PM (#278346) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: SeanM This one pokes it's head up frequently these days. A great place to check on this kind of thing is www.snopes.com, one of the closest to authoritative Urban Legend sources I've found online. Just remember that the news isn't infallible. Twain's "Petrified Man" hoax (and a few others) swept the nation by storm, and things ain't improved much since then. M |
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15 Aug 00 - 03:58 PM (#278348) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: SeanM Memo to self... on this Mac, the "enter key" acts as a "submit" on the 'cat... Grrrr... M |
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15 Aug 00 - 11:37 PM (#278556) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: Skivee Sorry Thomas. A verified urban legand. I have seen it myself at least four times in the last two years. Each time from a different source, each time it's "just about to be voted on, so we need to flood our congress-people with urgent E-mails". It's just a way that the moron originator can cackle about the thought of congressional computers being jammed with spam. BTW Congress is not in session right now... summer recess. |
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16 Aug 00 - 05:46 AM (#278672) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: Escamillo I've said this before, but it's a good opportunity to remind it: ANY mail with ANY story, that ends up asking you to send copies to ANYbody, is surely a hoax. The purpose is not only to jam some people's address with garbage. In general people resend the mail without cleaning up the list of addresses of previous recipients, and this list may grow to dozens, multiplied by the hundreds or thousands of threads. These authentic e-mail addresses reach some points in the net where the SPAMMERS have planted SPY programs. These spies then report those lists to their headquarters, as soon as the host user connects to the net. Some seconds of unexplained delay, and voilá! - another list of true e-mails caught. Months later you receive an offer of 100,000 e-mails "verified true" for 100 bucks or so. Surely you are included in that list. See the very interesting anti-spy programs from Gibson Research Corp at https://grc.com , which some Mudcatter recommended (I got rid of a spy program with their OptOut anti-spy) Un abrazo - Andrés |
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16 Aug 00 - 06:14 AM (#278682) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: Jon Freeman The latest round I have been getting have been ICQ hoaxes, the most common being "ICQ will delete your account if you don't forward this message to everyone on your list" I dread to think how many times I have received that one and have even had it 4 times from one... Telling some people that it is a hoax or asking them to think before forwarding messages just doesn't seem to work. One of these days I will set up a killfile on email and ICQ and people who repeatedly send that sort of nonsense to me will end up on it my tolerance towards it is decreasing rapidly. Jon |
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16 Aug 00 - 06:29 AM (#278684) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: CarolC Um, computer dummy here. What's an ICQ? Carol |
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16 Aug 00 - 06:48 AM (#278690) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: Jon Freeman ICQ is a (largely) text communication programme and is popular with several 'catters and is even used during the Mudcat Radio (yes, you can actually use it to communicate with Max, Bert, MaryMac and others during the show). It is available as a free download and versions exist for PC and Mac (I believe they have a Java version too that will run on Linux). It is well worth a look - go to http://www.icq.com. Jon |
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16 Aug 00 - 08:24 AM (#278720) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: kendall I checked with my Congressman, Tom Allen, with whom I am on a first name basis, and he assures me this is not true. |
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16 Aug 00 - 08:42 AM (#278737) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: GUEST,Roger the skiffler Does that mean I can stop sticking a stamp on each time I post? Oh, good, 'cause the screen's almost covered... RtS |
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16 Aug 00 - 01:14 PM (#278931) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: Jeri I wish folks would check these things out before passing them on. The snopes site has a page debunks currently circulating hoaxes, including bills to reduce the protected areas of the Amazon rain forest and the women's breast-oggling ones. They also will say if the story's true, as with the one about The Rescuing Hug - a struggling newborn helped by her twin sisters hug. There's a CIAC page on internet chain letters. (Also information on hoaxes and viruses among other things.) There's information on how to recognise a chain letter. Because some folks won't investigate this because they couldn't possible be among the suckers who fall for these things, (much like myself when I thought the NPR chain letter was for real and sent it on) I've summed up what's there.
Elements of a chain letter: A couple of things to look for are dates - when was the first message sent and when is the thing supposed to end. Chances are, there is no "cut-off" date and the thing will circulate until the end of time. Also, if the letter says when it's completed, someone will forward it to some Important Person or group - who's gonna do that? If there is an address, which letters are going to be completed and sent? The copy you got, or the ten you sent to different people, or the ones they sent to 100 or so different people, or the ones the 100 or so sent to...? Sorry, this is a sore spot with me, but I hope in the process of ranting, I've managed to provide some information. |
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16 Aug 00 - 01:26 PM (#278942) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: DougR S's okay, Jeri! It's a sore spot with a lot of us. DougR |
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16 Aug 00 - 02:38 PM (#278988) Subject: RE: Help: E-mail fees From: Escamillo LOL Roger ! (Don't ever ask for a certificate of Receipt - they stick to the internal surface of the screen and are impossible to remove) LOL |