Comments on: Hoax Busters http://www.bradburke.com/hoax-busters/ Selected quotes, favorite scripture verses and information on the writing of Dr. Brad Burke. Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:36:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Daiv http://www.bradburke.com/hoax-busters/comment-page-1/#comment-16705 Daiv Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:36:33 +0000 http://www.bradburke.com/hoax-busters/#comment-16705 Excellent! I am right there with you. It is SO easy to debunk these e-mails. A 1 minute search on the web with some key words from the article will usually turn up several hoax busting sites. However, I don't agree with you that it is easy to stop this. I have sent back kindly worded "this is a hoax" replies with supporting websites and an urge to check things out before forwarding many times. I do that every time I get one. But it isn't long before I get another hoax from that person and I reply again. Then I get another. So i word my reply in stronger language and then it stops. But when I talk to a mutual friend, that person doesn't stop sending forwards, they just stop sending them to me. This isn't an isolated case of one person I know. There are many out their who seem to be e-mail hoax/chain mail addicts who cannot control themselves. So I agree with your article on all accounts except the success of your efforts to debunk them. Unfortunately, you won't "soon have a much cleaner inbox". Daiv Excellent! I am right there with you. It is SO easy to debunk these e-mails. A 1 minute search on the web with some key words from the article will usually turn up several hoax busting sites.

However, I don’t agree with you that it is easy to stop this. I have sent back kindly worded “this is a hoax” replies with supporting websites and an urge to check things out before forwarding many times. I do that every time I get one. But it isn’t long before I get another hoax from that person and I reply again. Then I get another. So i word my reply in stronger language and then it stops. But when I talk to a mutual friend, that person doesn’t stop sending forwards, they just stop sending them to me.

This isn’t an isolated case of one person I know. There are many out their who seem to be e-mail hoax/chain mail addicts who cannot control themselves.

So I agree with your article on all accounts except the success of your efforts to debunk them. Unfortunately, you won’t “soon have a much cleaner inbox”.

Daiv

]]> By: Anna http://www.bradburke.com/hoax-busters/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Anna Thu, 12 Oct 2006 16:33:34 +0000 http://www.bradburke.com/hoax-busters/#comment-38 I loved this article! I have been checking my "important info emails" for years with truthorfiction.com. And I always forward that website to those who send me eRumors. I actually get emails now that read ... "I checked it on truthorfiction.com ..." Thank you. I loved this article! I have been checking my “important info emails” for years with truthorfiction.com. And I always forward that website to those who send me eRumors. I actually get emails now that read … “I checked it on truthorfiction.com …”
Thank you.

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