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[Doug Willhite <drwillhite@earthlink.net>]

http://chihuahuavalley.net
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Begin forwarded message:

From: ryanbrown@skysailing.com


> This is too good not to forward!!!  I've read that you should  
> address a forward to one person, then use the "Blind Copy" to  
> forward to the rest of the folks you want to include - so that's  
> what I did here.
>
> _________________________________________
>
> By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with snopes.com and/or  
> truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via  
> email is just that:  true/false or fact/fiction.  Both are  
> excellent sites.
>
>
> Advice from snopes.com:

> 1) Any time you see an email that says "forward this on to '10' (or  
> however many) of your friends", "sign this petition", or "you'll  
> get bad luck" or "you'll get good luck" or "you'll see something  
> funny on your screen after you send it" or whatever --- it almost  
> always has an email tracker program attached that tracks the  
> cookies and emails of those folks you forward to.  The host sender  
> is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to  
> get lists of 'active' email addresses to use in SPAM emails or sell  
> to other spammers.  Even when you get emails that demand you send  
> the email on if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus --- that is email  
> tracking, and they are playing on our conscience.  These people  
> don't care how they get your email addresses - just as long as they  
> get them.  Also, emails that talk about a missing child or a child  
> with an incurable disease "how would you feel if that was your  
> child" --- email tracking.  Ignore them and don't participate!
>
>
> 2) Almost all emails that ask you to add your name and forward on  
> to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked  
> people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who  
> wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards.   
> All it was, and all any of this type of email is, is a way to get  
> names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and  
> spammers -- to validate active email accounts for their own  
> profitable purposes.
>
>
> You can do your Friends and Family members a GREAT favor by sending  
> this information to them.  You will be providing a service to your  
> friends.  And you will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam  
> emails in the future!
>
>  Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of  
> listing regardless how inviting they might sound! Or make you feel  
> guilty if you don't! It's all about getting email addresses and  
> nothing more.
>
>
> You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT!
>
>
> Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later and very  
> possibly a virus attached!  Plus, we are helping the spammers get  
> rich!  Let's not make it easy for them!
> ALSO:  Email petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress of any other  
> organization - i.e. social security, etc.  To be acceptable,  
> petitions must have a "signed signature" and full address of the  
> person signing the petition, so this is a waste of time and you are  
> just helping the email trackers.
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
> Tips for Handling Telemarketers
>
>  Three Little Words That Work!!
>
>  (1)The three little words are: 'Hold On, Please...'
>
>  Saying this, while putting down your phone and walking off  
> (instead of hanging-up immediately) would make each telemarketing  
> call so much more time-consuming that boiler room sales would grind  
> to a halt.
>
>  Then when you eventually hear the phone company's 'beep-beep-beep'  
> tone, you know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which  
> has efficiently completed its task.
>
>  These three little words will help eliminate telephone soliciting..
>
>  (2) Do you ever get those annoying phone calls with no one on the  
> other end?
>
>  This is a telemarketing technique where a machine makes phone  
> calls and records the time of day when a person answers the phone.
>
>  This technique is used to determine the best time of day for a  
> 'real' sales person to call back and get someone at home.
>
>  What you can do after answering, if you notice there is no one  
> there, is to immediately start hitting your # button on the phone,  
> 6 or 7 times as quickly as possible. This confuses the machine that  
> dialed the call, and it kicks your number out of their system.  
> Gosh, what a shame not to have your name in their system any longer!!!
>
>  (3) Junk Mail Help:
> When you get 'ads' enclosed with your phone or utility bill, return  
> these 'ads' with your payment. Let the sending companies throw  
> their own junk mail away.
>
>  When you get those 'pre-approved' letters in the mail for  
> everything from credit cards to 2nd mortgages and similar type  
> junk, do not throw away the return envelope.
>
>  Most of these come with postage-paid return envelopes, right? It  
> costs them more than the regular 44 cents postage, 'IF' and when  
> they receive them back.
>
>  It costs them nothing if you throw them away! The postage was  
> around 50 cents before the last increase and it is according to the  
> weight. In that case, why not get rid of some of your other junk  
> mail and put it in these cool little, postage-paid return envelopes.
>
>  One of Andy Rooney 's (60 minutes) ideas.
>
> Send an ad for your local chimney cleaner to American Express. Send  
> a pizza coupon to Citibank. If you didn't get anything else that  
> day, then just send them their blank application back!
>  If you want to remain anonymous, just make sure your name isn't on  
> anything you send them.
>
>  You can even send the envelope back empty if you want to just to  
> keep them guessing! It still costs them 44 cents.
>
>  The banks and credit card companies are currently getting a lot of  
> their own junk back in the mail, but folks, we need to OVERWHELM  
> them. Let's let them know what it's like to get lots of junk mail,  
> and best of all they're paying for it...Twice!
>
>  Let's help keep our postal service busy since they are saying that  
> e-mail is cutting into their business profits, and that's why they  
> need to increase postage costs again. You get the idea!
>
>  If enough people follow these tips, it will work ---- I have been  
> doing this for years, and I get very little junk mail anymore.
>
>  THIS JUST MIGHT BE ONE E-MAIL THAT YOU WILL WANT TO FORWARD TO  
> YOUR FRIENDS