Kinda ADMINy: Your Email Forwarding Mantra

[John Walton]

Since I have gotten a great deal of spam in the past weeks, I'd like to post
a valuable reminder/mantra to separate the true stuff from the real spam.

NOW EVERYONE SAY IT WITH ME ...

"I will NOT get bad luck, lose my friends, or lose my mailing list if I
DON'T forward an e-mail. I will NOT hear any music, see a taco dog, or see a
cool pop-up screen if DO forward an e-mail.

Bill Gates is NOT going to send me money, Victoria's Secret doesn't know
anything about a gift certificate they're supposed to send me and Ford will
not give me a 50% discount even if I have forwarded my e-mail to more than
50 people.

I will NEVER receive gift certificates, coupons, or freebies from Coca Cola,
Cracker Barrel, Old Navy, or anyone else if I send an e-mail to 10 people
who don't know who I am anyway.

I will NEVER see a pop up window if I forward an e-mail ...NEVER!!!!

My phone will not MYSTERIOUSLY ring after I forward an e-mail. There is NO
SUCH THING as an e-mail tracking program, and I am not STUPID enough to
think that someone will send me $100 for forwarding an e-mail to 10 or more
people.

There is no kid with cancer through the Make a Wish program in England
collecting anything. He did when he was 7 yrs old. He is now cancer free and
35 years old and DOESN'T WANT ANYMORE POST CARDS, CALLING CARDS or GET WELL
CARDS!

The government does not have a bill in congress called 901B (or whatever
they named it this week) that if passed will enable them to charge us 5
cents for every sent e-mail.

There will be NO cool dancing, singing, waving, colorful flower, character,
or program I will receive immediately after I forward an e-mail. People are
just trying to talk me into doing it to make me look like a fool.

The American Red Cross will NOT donate 50 cents to a certain individual
dying of some never heard of before disease for every e-mail address I send
this to. The American Red Cross RECEIVES donations, they don't donate!

And finally, I WILL NOT let others guilt me into sending things onto my
friends for fear they will think I am not their friend ...  or by telling me
I have no conscience or don't believe in my deity!

If my deity wants to send me a message, I believe the bushes in my yard will
burn or the words will appear to me in a cave before s/he picks up a PC to
pass it along ...  but even if it does come by e-mail, s/he will send me one
at which point I'm SURE I will know it will be from him/her. AND if s/he
does, I'm sure s/he will care enough to delete all those annoying forwards
inside it!

Now, repeat this 4 times to yourself until you've memorized it and then send
it along to at least 5 of your friends before the next full moon or you will
surely be constipated for the next 3 months and all of your hair will fall
out!!!!"

--John