Hoaxes List
Check these pages before you pass that
"tell your friends immediately" message onto the Web.

In the past year I have fallen for three hoaxes and forwarded them to everybody,
so I can understand good intentions. THEN I checked the source.
In the last instance there were 176 names above mine and three
names below me before this was pointed out to me to be hoax.

Urban Legends Hoaxes List

Win a Holiday Hoax Win a Holiday Hoax Win a Holiday Hoax

AOL has an entire section on hoaxes. Go to Keyword: "virus."

E-mail Virus alerts:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Urban Legends
1 2 3 4 5 Chain Letters
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Light-hearted treatment of hoaxes
Evaluating Internet
Research Sources
Evaluation of
Information Sources
Bibliography of
Evaluating Internet Resources
Designing Effective Action Alerts
for the Internet
Netiquette
& E-mail usage for beginners
Network Etiquette
From (RUN*1) and (IETF*2)
Proper use of Internet Resources
From (IAB*3) and (IETF*2)
Flaming SPAM SPAM Privacy on-line: Privacy on-line:
Don't use 30 hyphens or a line of asterisks in list messages.
(They are part of the digest format.)

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