Tracking Emails.                                                            

Here is something everyone should read and act accordingly. If you don't,
you're  hurting yourself and your email buddies.  Please read right to the
bottom.

By now, I  suspect everyone is familiar with www.snopes.com 
and/or  www.truthorfiction.com for determining  whether information received
via email is just that: true/false  or fact/fiction. Both are  excellent
sites. 

Advice from Snopes.com Very  important!

1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says  forward this on to '10' (or however
many) of your friends, sign  this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good
luck, you'll see  something funny on your screen after you send it, or
whatever,  it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached  that
tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward  to.

The host sender  is getting a copy each time it gets  forwarded and then is
able to get lists of 'active' E-Mail  addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or
sell to other spammers.  Even when you get emails that demand you send the
email on  if you're not ashamed of God/Jesus ....that's  E-mail tracking and
they're playing on our conscience.  These people don't care how they get
your email addresses  - just as long as they get them. Also, emails that
talk  about a missing child or a child with an incurable disease  -  "how
would you feel if that was  your child"....E-mail Tracking!!!

Ignore them and  don't participate! 

2) Almost all E-Mails  that ask you to add your name and forward on to
others are  similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send 
business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break  the
Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was,  and all any of
this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names  and 'cookie' tracking
information for telemarketers  and spammers - - to validate active E-Mail
accounts for  their own profitable purposes. 

You can do  your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this 
information to them; you will be providing a service to your  friends, and
will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam  E-Mails in the future! 

If you have been  sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now
you  know why you get so much SPAM! 

Do yourself a  favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of
listings  regardless how inviting they might sound!...or make you feel 
guilty if you don't!...it's all about getting email addresses  - nothing
more! 

You may think you are  supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT! Instead,
you will be  getting tons of junk mail later and very possibly a virus 
attached!  Plus, you are helping the spammers get rich!  Let's not make it
easy for them! 

Also: E-Mail petitions are  NOT acceptable to White House, Congress or any
other  organization - i.e. social security, etc. To be acceptable, petitions
must have a signed signature and full address of the  person signing the
petition, so this is a waste of time and  you're just helping the Email 
trackers. 

AND MOST IMPORTANT:... don't forget... delete other people’s e-mail
addresses on your e-mails and when forwarding/sending useBCC:    You’ll
notice that the only name up top is yours and mine.