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[Four Kitties]

Comment: I am grateful to have a site such as snopes as a resource to
check out the tings that constantly fly around the web. Great site, great
idea, and thank you!

[Four Kitties]

Comment: i just used your site AGAIN after someone, who assured me she'd
done her research, sent a scam. many a time you guys/gals save my skin
and end an argument, and today seemed like a good day to say thank you.
besides that, any time spent trolling your site is a giggle.
thank you. happy spring.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I routinely go to your site to check the validity of emails
received from friends/family. I just wanted to take a moment to thank
your staff for their due diligence which helps me sort through the good
intensions of the forwarding party! Many of the emails are harmless but
there are a few that come across that need to be corrected, with your
help, I try to keep the “record” straight.

I particularly like the emails that state, “have been verified by Snopes”,
and when you check your site…NOT!!! Guess the originator thinks this adds
weight to their stories, but the savvy users of your site always checks!
;o)

Keep up the good work, it’s much appreciated.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Just wanted to say thanks to all of you at Snopes and for all
your hard work and reserch! Please keep it up! When I come across one of
the internet rumors that I don't quite believe, you are my first resource.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Just a quick note to say how much I like and admire this site. I
have always been interested in urban legends (since buying a book years
and years ago with a title something like "The Vanishing Hitch Hiker -
Urban Legends and their Meanings.")

Thank you so much for providing this resource. Just a few minutes ago I
received, yet again, another urban legend hoax (this time a medical
warning about "aspartame.") Of course, your site quickly dispelled it (in
fact your example of the hoax was very close to the narrative of the one I
received.)

I am to the point I can pick out an urban legend quite effectively.

Anyway, thanks.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I want to thank you for having your site...all the maintenance,
keeping it up to date etc. I've considered myself centrist, questioning
everything. But my dad and husband always send me stuff that I love to
pull up on Snopes and show them that it is really years old...and false.
Lately it was poor Andy Rooney. I think that no one should forward any
"fact" email unless they verify it with Snopes. Furthermore, anyone over
65 should be required to have Snopes a click away and have to verify all
emails they forward. Unfortunately, my dad and mother-in-law and all
their friends are oh so guilty of that. I hate being the "know it all"
and forward them your link but all the blind acceptance of these "factual"
emails drives me bonkers. Thanks for the help.

[rujasu]

Originally Posted by Comment

Furthermore, anyone over 65 should be required to have Snopes a click away and have to verify all emails they forward.

Over 65? If there's anything these UL's prove, it's that stupidity happens at all ages.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I just wanted to THANK you for providing this site. I'm amazed
at the forwarded emails I get from friends that I consider intelligent,
that are either totally bogus, or so misrepresented (to propagandize an
issue, on either side), that I literally get stomach upset and am
disgusted that anyone would stoop so low.

So THANK YOU!

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I am so thankful for the Snopes site. There are so many rumors
and emails that look so legit. It is hard for the average person to
distinquish between false and true.
Thank you for being there and being so on top of these issues.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I love your site - thank you for being a great single source to
go for real info on hoaxes, urban legends and other stuff that gets passed
around the internet.

first, I work for RIM (maker of Blackberry) and appreciate you having
updated your article below very quickly after people started forwarding
around a hoax blackberry message yesterday.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/inter...asp#blackberry

and again today I used your site to look up another hoax email chain
letter that is going around.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/triangle.asp


Thanks for providing a valuable service - Great work!

[Four Kitties]

Comment: THANKS. IT IS ESSENTIALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE ORDINARY PERSON TO
SEPARATE THE WHEAT FROM THE CHAFF, THE EMOTION FROM THE FACT, AND/OR THE
TRUTH FROM THE LIE. YOU DO A GREAT SERVICE. I HOPE YOU WILL MAINTAIN.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Just wanted to send you a heartfelt THANK YOU! for the work you
do. What nobler endeavor than exposing rumors and lies , banishing
ignorance and upholding the truth. I can't tell you how many times I have
received a chain e-mail from a friend or family member who has been
whipped into a lather by a provocative, inflammatory lie and all I have to
do is type a few of the keywords into your site and often have the origin
and date of first appearance clearly identified, but most importantly, the
contents rebutted or upheld as the facts may warrant. You are providing a
tremendous service to democracy.

[Four Kitties]

Thank you for the service you provide to clarify and debunk information
provided by groups like this one that is so destructive to all human
beings.Political figures, Groups that speak, publish, or use video to
disrespect individuals groups sooner or later will get around to any of
us. This is a wonderful service you are providing to educate people in ,we
are armed with information not fear filled rhetoric thank you so very
much.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Love the sight. I am always getting e-mails from by sisters
telling me to get the "warning" out on whatever one of their friends have
duped them into believing. You should sell t-shirts that read :
SNOPES.COM - Don't forward an e-mail without us!

[Four Kitties]

Comment: What would I do without you guys! I wouldn't buy stamps, pick up
infants left in car seats on the side of lonely roads, sniff busness cards
& my auto would be covered with yellow stickies! Honestly people email
things they would never bring up in everyday conversations. Thanks for
being out there

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Thank you for being my fact checker!!

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I just want to tell you how much I love this website! What a
great idea!! "Snopes it" has become common place language in our office at
work and at home. I can always count to learn the truth behind things by
coming here...and I can always trust what you guys say. The true stories
behind things is always so much more interesting than most of the stories!
YOu guys rock!! Thanks again and keep up the great work!!
~me

[Four Kitties]

Comment: I guess I could visit your site all day long--looks like a lot of
interesting items!
I saw the article in Readers' Digest (I'm a long-time subscriber)and was
impressed with your work. Thank you.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Hello,

I just wanted to send along a grateful THANK YOU for providing this
website to the general public. Like so many people, I work in an office
environment where at least once a week some new scam email flies around
the office. Human nature is such that we all tend to believe what's in
writing, so most people pass these things on and on. And as much as I
hate to be the one to burst their bubble of fascinated horror, it bothers
me to let people believe idiotic stuff. I am compelled to hit REPLY with
a link to your page on your site which identifies the culprit email as
False.

It is sad that most of us latch onto the wrong kind of ideas without doing
the proper research, but I think this is the culture we are in today.
Thanks to you, at least some of us have a way of quickly identifying
whether something is true or false; and if false, to stop perpetuating the
falsehood.

So thank you VERY MUCH for your ongoing championing for Truth and Justice
in a world full of people who crave the sensational.

[Four Kitties]

Comment: Extremely nice attempt to explore some of the imp issues that we
normally ignore in our life but which actually means a lot. As I have been
working on urban legend for many yrs in India, Assam, this website is
really very helpful.Although in India, people are still not want to think
of this kind of issues, so many a time I come across lots of arguements
so, need to share.Wish snopes all the success...