Friends-- I must publically THANK Eileen Stafford for checking with me
BEFORE sending to the list a virus hoax ("Bud Frog screensaver" ) that she
got on "good authority "from her lawyer son---- I was able to tell her it
was an oldie but baddie that has been surfing the net for ages.
By checking, Eileen saved all of us---and who knows whoelse---time and
irritation and bandwidth.
She gets my "Genius of the Week Award" ! :-)
I reminded her, and am reminding you all, that you can check this stuff out
for yourselves. Here are 2 websites that give you a good start, and there
are more--(one whole site devoted to countering the claims of damage from
Aspartame, for example.)
>You can see for yourself at one of these websites---and tell your son to
>look it up, too.
>http://netsquirrel.com/combatkit/--explains the truth re: virus warnings
>http://urbanlegends.about.com/msubvir.htm?pid=2733&cob=home lists the Bud
>Frogs hoax
NOTE to janet paterson---would it be possible somewhere to include a
warning about this sort of thing on the wensite you have set up? I think
that would be a real public service---Here are some other sites for
checking out hoaxes, scams, and urban legends:
http://caloriecontrol.org/opinasp.html re: safety of Aspartame
http://www.nutrasweet.com/html/lib_rumors.html
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/
http://korova.com/virus/hoax981220.htm
http://astro.nmsu.edu/~lhuber/leaphist.html
Camilla Flintermann, <[log in to unmask]>
http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm My Home Page
" Knowing when to insist, and when to let be,
is,perhaps, a lifetime learning experience ."
--Mary McCurry
