It is certainly true that everyone who has an e-mail address has received some message claiming that something bad is going on, or someone said something they didn’t, or that someone influential wrote a letter that turns out to be wishful thinking. I often point the propagators of such urban legends to Snopes because the folks who run Snopes are dedicated to hunting down the truth regarding these tidbits that make their way to the status of urban legend.
It would nice, wouldn’t it, if there was such a thing for technical issues; a technology-focused Snopes, if you will.
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