Re: WAY OT re: www.snopes.com/politics/military/starbucks.asp This is a Email being Verified as a HOAX on this link to Snopes Website!!!

[Dan <danielalbertini72@yahoo.com>]

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!  I did not mean to get this on the loopers 
delight thread!!!  Somehow
somebodys email was from loopers delight?  And I will try to figure out 
who that was.  I almost
had Brian Good on there but caught it at the last minute!  I am so sorry 
fellow loopers of
delight!!!  This was actually a personal emailing by myself I did not 
forward any mass email I
typed it myself.  I already learned the hard way about this and I just got 
off the phone this
morning talking about it with Michael Chapdelaine!!!  He was very helpful 
and kind and recommended
a program within Microsoft Outlook Express.  He has many thousands of 
people on his email lists
and he says this program with a strange name I cannot remember right now?? 
 Really helps sort out
all the tangled up mess a mass email can get into.  Just one comma out of 
place in hundreds of
emails can screw up your whole attempt and thats exactly what happenned to 
me this morning and it
took hours to figure out hunting down the problem!!!  Now Im gonna go look 
into Snopes about this
giant UFO in Texas!!!  Part of me really hopes thats real, but Im real 
real experienced first hand
and have been researching unidentified phenomena most of my life.  I and a 
number of my friends
and family here in Pittsburg Kansas have constantly been seeing what looks 
like quickly moving
satellites or near stars that can change direction faster than what your 
mind can comprehend!!! 
We have some of them on night vision video :o)  I dont think there would 
be any way these could be
anything other than unmanned flying objects as to a human could not 
survive the extreme G Force
changes, no way possible!  Maybe if it was not human and had an 
exoskeleton!  Ha Ha LoL.  Thanks
for letting me know about this as soon as possible so I can put a stop to 
it!  Hope you enjoy my
spontaneous compositions with my boomerang phrase sampler as well?
--- Dan Ash <Daniel.Ash@Verizon.net> wrote:

> This is not only Off Topic and should be labeled so, but the irony 
> demands comment.
> 
> Internet hoaxes are sometimes created with an actual axe to grind 
> against a party (in this case a company with a spotty record when it 
> comes to labor rights - particularly the right to organize here in 
> NYC).  More often they are just to generate tons of lame email that 
> people send to their entire mailing lists without researching the 
> subject - exactly the way rumors spread in the non-technological world.  
> For example - when a hoax about a computer virus prompts people to 'send 
> this to everyone you know'.  Bingo! The desired effect  is achieved when 
> that person decides that they need to warn their friends about the 
> imaginary danger..
> 
> In this case our intrepid reporter not only feels compelled to act TO 
> ADDRESS THE HOAX and spams the list (probably as just another member of 
> his address book), but in the process exposes the addresses of all the 
> friends and acquaintances in his address book.
> 
> Dear Daniel, I think the internet has been around long enough so you 
> should understand the dynamics of how internet hoaxes spread and where 
> the risks actually lie.  In this case, I'd be more concerned with 
> exposing all your friends' email addresses in a post to an internet 
> group. (hint: there are ways to hide these when you're sending to a list 
> of addresses using ".BCC"). 
> 
> BTW Starbucks can take care of themselves.
> 
> Dan Ash
> White Plains, NY
> 
> 



      
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