Number 207 - August 2000

E-mail Hoaxes: Send this message to everyone you know
from Leo Laporte's column askleo@accessmagazine.com
You've probably heard these:     Congress is about to pass a tax on e-mail!     The FCC plans a tariff on modem use!     Bill Gates will pay you $1,000 for forwarding this message!     I get urgent e-mails with subjects such as these every day from well-meaning Chicken Littles. I bet you do, too. But they aren't true. They're e-mail hoaxes that spread like wildfire because people pass them along on faith.	Don't spread that hoax. Before you press the forward button, visit the Internet hoax page sponsored by the Department of Energy at ciac.llnl.gov.* If it's listed there, it's bogus, and almost all of them are bogus. Trust me.     Next time you get one of these messages, relax, take a deep breath and press the Delete key. Your friends will thank you for it. * (That's lower case CIAC.LLNL.GOV -ed).
Number 207 - August 2000