Comments for Is this an email hoax? Will forwarding an email help a dying child?

Comment from Nick H. on 2008-03-22

2008-03-23T00:08:44Z

Asking (possibly inexperienced) users to remember a specific URL (e.g. snopes.com) will generally not work.
Maybe better to advise all unsure recipients to simply 'Google' the subject line of the message; it is pretty much guaranteed that they will end up at snopes or similar anyway.
Thanks for all the articles ... Cheers.
Nick H. France

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Comment from Randy on 2008-03-21

2008-03-22T04:32:09Z

Forwarding mail can really come back to haunt you, as one lady discovered: http://www.thisistrue.com/warning.html

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Comment from Bill P. Godfrey on 2008-03-19

2008-03-19T13:58:09Z

Forward this to as many people as you can!

(joke)

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Comment from Natalie Kehr on 2008-03-18

2008-03-19T07:30:54Z

I can trace my part of the chain back to a member of staff at a college. It went from colleges to hospitals. From my part of the chain I know over 50 e-mail addresses. I will be writing to all these people telling them about this article, and also pointing out how undesirable it is to publicise other people's addresses without their permission. Perhaps Leo could do another article on the use of bcc rather than cc.

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Comment from Roger Howell on 2008-03-18

2008-03-19T02:17:52Z

I am so glad for your article. I have told people time and time again to use snopes.com to check something that's questionable that they have either received or read on the internet including those forwarded e-mails you mentioned. Maybe hearing from an established computer user, then maybe somone will finally take me seriously.

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Comment from Matt on 2008-03-18

2008-03-18T21:12:20Z

Excellent, now I can show this article to a few relatives of mine instead of having to explain it. Thanks.

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