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[Four Kitties]

Comment: Dear Barbara and David,
Thank you for all that you do to help me combat ridiculous spam in my
inbox. I am now going to try to start a trend of "pay-it-backward"
insisting that when you discover falsehoods in your inbox, you inform the
senders and insist that they not break the chain going backwards to spread
the word about Snopes.com. The truth shall set us free. Or at least let us
not appear so ignorant...
Here is a copy of my latest e-mail response to my sister, who insists on
forwarding things without checking with you first:

Oh dear.
This is so full of lies I don't even know where to start. Please always
check out this type of e-mail on Snopes.com before you blast it on to
others.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/north.asp

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/atta.asp

Please go back to the e-mail that was sent to you containing this message
and forward this information on to them.

Please do not break the chain. If you agree that the American public
should be made aware of the truth and not spam revisionist history, pass
it back.

Snopes.com
Snopes .com
Snopes.com

Please bookmark it in your search engine and it will be easy to check
these things.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Just want to say "Thanks" for what you do! I love your site even
more now since I saw you on the CBS Sunday Morning show. I was surprised
to learn that you don't have a room full of people doing your research AND
that so much of your research is actually gleaned from books and not the
internet! So as I read about things like the "Horses Pass" story, I'm even
more appreciative of the information you provide.
Thanks for what you do.. it's educational, informative, and entertaining!

[Four Kitties]

Comment: You have a wonderful site. I have found almost every "warning"
e-mail could be verified, confirmed or denied by your team.

Thank you for your efforts and this important service.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Hi Barbara,

I just wanted to let you know the article on bananas (possibly going
extinct) was great. When else would one ever get to use the phrase,
"sterile seedless mutants" in a sentence and not have it either be a joke
or something from a sci-fi comic? It was truly a great article and a
great laugh as well. Your sign-off should have been, "Barbara
"top-banana" Mikkelson.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Love and really appreciate what you are doing. Keep up the great
work in ridding the internet of false information, defamation, and scare
tactics.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I saw the article on you in a magazine. It was very interesting
to read about the people behind this website. I am so glad your site
exists. It is great to be able to go somewhere and see what is true and
what is not. It is amazing the people that do not check emails out before
blindly passing them along.
Again, thanks for what you do. It is great to be able to do what you are
passionate about. In this case, many reap the benefits. Blessings.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Dear Barbara,

I am a huge fan of Snopes.com, and reference it on a regular basis. You
have no idea (or probably, you do) how many email forwards I regularly
refute with your astute help! I look forward to the opportunity to
discuss all of this with you at greater length at some point.

But I believe my favorite elements of all your endeavors are the
"nicknames" you assign yourself at the end of many articles. So my message
here today is to congratulate you on one of your best; at the close of the
article on the Coriolis force (and I shall never watch my sink drain in
the same way again) you signed off with, "as the whirl cisterns".... Too
beautiful! You had me laughing out loud, yet again. (I admit, I am a man
of simple pleasures, obviously...)

Please keep up your enlightening and important work. In the words of the
great philosopher, Leslie Nielsen, "We're all counting on you!"

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Whenever I receive an email that seems false, I use the "snopes
test". It is annoying that more people don't bother to check things out;
THANK YOU for what you do.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Love the site and the article in Readers Digest. Always look up
the rumors on your site and "reply all" to the sender and everyone else,
with the link back to your web site debunking these urban ledgends.
Keep up the fantastic work.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Just thought I'd write to say I love this site and have been a
fan of it for many years. In fact, the BS email I used to get is
non-existent now that I refer people here to check the garbage they get
before they hit "forward".

Keep up the good work!!

Thanks!

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Just wanted to say I seriously love you guys. Please keep up the
good work, and know that you are appreciated. Thank you for all the
research. I have no idea how ya'll keep up with the rumors on the web.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I just read the article about you two in Reader's Digest. I love
what you do and thank you for it. It is really something we truly need. I
find it hard to believe people don't look up every single email when they
get them instead of forwarding to their address book. I sometimes feel
cynical, but I look them all up... and reply all with your link when I
find it. (along with the recommendation that everyone use snopes before
forwarding, even when the emails says "I checked this on snopes and it is
true" ugh!)

thanks again.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: My only complaint about this site is that I didn't come up with
it first!

As a person who actually spends their internet time for work, research and
learning, it's been great having a site like this to refer to when I get
forwaded emails. Some of those emails would have turned me into a paranoid
nut by now, if not for this site. I can and will get the facts from Snopes
(if the truth is out there).

Snopes.com is a great web site. I just wanted to say so. Kudos who you
all.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I want to say "Thank You" ... Friends and/or family members are
always sending me emails warning me of the many various dangers their
friends or family have sent them via email ...... and they, of course,
feel the instant need to send this and all newly discovered dangers out to
everyone they know without checking if what they are sending out is true
or not...Thus, passing on and coninuing the hype and false information.
The latest of these being about "Code Grabbers" that sit in parking lots
and rob your car while the driver is away for five minutes and that the
story is Snope approved...despite this claim, I still checked with
Snopes...always check with Snopes.

The absurdity of some of these claims make me laugh but... no matter what
it is about I always check with Snopes to find out if it is true or not.
Most of the time their "warnings" are false information or mixed with a
bit of truth. Therefore, I always reply back to whomever sent it to me
and tell them their information is false, send them a Snopes link to the
information, to pass this information back to the person that sent it to
them and I always tell them to check with Snopes before sending out these
sometimes strange and absurd warnings to people. I guess you can say I am
the one link in the email "chain" that keeps breaking rank to verify the
vaility of any and all claims. Nevertheless ... I have Snopes to thank
for both easing my mind and breaking the "chain" of false emails.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I am so thankful for your site, I cannot tell you how many
forwards I get, telling me about random things that always, and I do mean
always, turn out to be false. Thank you for providing us with truth and
validity. I learned the hard way not to forward emails without checking
their validity first. Thanks Snopes.com, you are awesome!

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Thanks for your website and especially your honesty in reporting
and investigating, it always amazes me how much people don't want to know
the truth, and especially the people that doubt your truthfulness and try
to discredit you web-sight. Once again Thanks

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Hi, Barbara & David...

I just read the update at FactCheck that was contained in your newsletter
I received. As soon as I saw the e-mailer in the article state something
to the effect that it's been a mystery as to who is behind Snopes, I knew
the writer either had an agenda or is a moron.

I've been reading your site for many years and trying to get my friends
and relatives into the habit of checking your site before they send me
something. Alas, I've not had much luck 8-)

I appreciate all of your time and effort in debunking e-mails, etc.

And as a Conservative in general, I can attest that I have found no
evidence of any "left-leaning" instances. True Conservatives should just
be interested in the truth--no matter what it is.

Anyway, thanks again for your site--it is a nice respite from all of the
rubbish one runs into on the internet.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Thanks for all the good and intelligent workand research you do.
The net is a wild and wooly place and Snopes does try to maintain some
level of sanity.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Dear Barbara and David,

Just read the article on Factcheck.org, and was cheering all the way. You
guys rock! Many a time have I replied to mass e-mails from my friends
perpetuating various bogus letters by attaching a link to a page on
Snopes.com that debunks the e-mail. Keep up the excellent work!

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Just a word to say KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. This is he best source
I have ever seen for good info on many topics.
Thanks again.