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		<description><![CDATA[  Hi   this makes even clearer what my husband has already explained to  me&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..  DONE!     *Advice from Snopes:   Here is a nice little tidbit of information that came my way this  morning, so if any of you are wondering why I won&#8217;t return something to  you that said something like &#8216;if [...]]]></description>
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<p>Hi <img src='http://dragonflyranch.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   this makes even clearer what my husband has already explained to </p>
<p>me&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..  DONE! <img src='http://dragonflyranch.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>*Advice from Snopes:</p>
<p>  Here is a nice little tidbit of information that came my way this </p>
<p>morning, so if any of you are wondering why I won&#8217;t return something to </p>
<p>you that said something like &#8216;if I don&#8217;t get this back I&#8217;ll&#8230;.or, &#8216;See </p>
<p>how many flowers  or hugs you can get back&#8217;, or &#8216;Forward this to 10 </p>
<p>people in the next 5 mins. Or something bad will happen to you&#8217;, etc.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>  The following is why I will not send them.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><span>  Advice from <a class="zem_slink" title="Snopes" rel="homepage" href="http://www.snopes.com/">Snopes.Com</a> </span><span>http://snopes.com/</span><span>&gt;* &lt;</span><span>http://snopes.Com/</span><span>&gt;</span></p>
<p>**</p>
<p>* 1) Any time you see an E-<a class="zem_slink" title="Mail (application)" rel="homepage" href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/mail">Mail</a> that says forward this on to &#8217;10&#8242; of </p>
<p>your friends, or sign this <a class="zem_slink" title="Petition" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petition">petition</a>, or you&#8217;ll get <a class="zem_slink" title="Luck" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck">bad luck</a>, good luck, </p>
<p>or whatever,  it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached </p>
<p>that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>  The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then </p>
<p>is able to get lists of &#8216;active&#8217; E-Mails to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell </p>
<p>to other spammers.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>  2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to </p>
<p>others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to </p>
<p>send <a class="zem_slink" title="Business card" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_card">business cards</a> to the little kid in <a class="zem_slink" title="Florida" rel="geolocation" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.0,-81.5&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=28.0,-81.5 (Florida)&amp;t=h">Florida</a> who wanted to break the </p>
<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Guinness World Records" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records">Guinness Book of Records</a> for the most cards.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>  All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get </p>
<p>names and &#8216;cookie &#8216; tracking information for telemarketers and spammers </p>
<p>- &#8211; to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>  You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor (PLEASE) by </p>
<p>sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to </p>
<p>your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam </p>
<p>E-Mails in the future!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>  If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, </p>
<p>now you know why you get so much SPAM!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>   Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(S) to those types of </p>
<p>listings regardless how inviting they might sound! You may think you are </p>
<p>supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you </p>
<p>will be getting tons of junk mail later! Plus, we are helping the </p>
<p>spammers get rich! Let&#8217;s don&#8217;t make it easy for them!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>  Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other </p>
<p>organization.   To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature </p>
<p>and full address of the person signing the petition.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>  Read the full story here:*</p>
<p>                                    </p>
<p><span>Http://WWW.snopes.Com/inboxer/petition/Internet.asp</span><span> </span></p>
<p><span>&lt;</span><span>http://WWW.snopes.Com/inboxer/petition/Internet.asp</span><span>&gt; </span></p>
<p><span>&lt;</span><span>http://WWW..snopes.Com/inboxer/petition/Internet.asp</span><span>&gt;</span></p>
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