The Chronicles
March 2010
Salutations dear readers and fellow Laurentian neighbors,
Ooooooooo, dearest readers, did you know that not all e-mails are worthy of being forwarded to ALL your family, friends, acquaintances and anyone else you might think of?
In February of 2008, I wrote an article explaining why it is important to learn how to clean e-mails containing good jokes before Forwarding them, thereby preventing the spread of e-mail viruses. You can refer to http://www.monamilordi.com/english/reviews/2008/08-02.html for a refresh.
There are other kinds of e-mails that are regularly received that many find they cannot resist sending on to everyone in their address book. These are known as “E-mail Hoaxes”. They often tell us not to open such-and-such e-mail or else! I cannot stress enough to PLEASE VERIFY THE VALIDITY of any of these e-mails before passing it on as their very purpose, most of the time, is to help spread viruses.
There are a couple of good Web sites where you can copy and paste the subject line of a potential e-mail hoax in order to search their database and confirm that the content of the e-mail is true and therefore worthy of Forwarding.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/
http://www.hoaxbusters.org/
It is worth taking the time to really look over these sites and to use them religiously. Rather than mindlessly spreading false information, you will become an informed e-mail user.
Take good care of yourselves,
questions.monamilordi@gmail.com
This article originally appeared in Main Street – The Laurentians' English Language Community Newspaper.
