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Sent: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 9:28 am
Subject: SPAM ALERT
Please read and take note.
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION. I will NEVER knowingly forward
emails like this again.
E-mail,
Spam and Internet Hoaxes Advice from Snopes.com
Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward
this on to "10" of your friends sign this petition, or you'll
get bad luck, or whatever, it
has either an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and
E-Mails of those folks you forward. The host sender is getting a copy
each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of "active"
E-Mails to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell
to others that do.
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 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 type listings regardless
how inviting they might sound! You
think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run.
Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later in life!
Also: E-Mail
petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other organization.
To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full
address of the person signing the petition.
Read the full story here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer
/petition/internet.asp
To
verify a story read in an e-mail message, go to www.snopes.com
or www.truthorfiction.com,
type a couple of words in the search line and see the real facts.
This should be used BEFORE you send any information out to
others.
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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:40 PM
Subject: A Bit of Foolishness
Someone with waaay too much time on their hand wrote these.......
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And Finally...
We present this email without trepidation for its inspirational qualities. The familiar email enticement press this key after forwarding for an amazing surprise segment at the close is omitted.
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An
incredible love story has come out of China recently and managed to
touch the world.
It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love
each other in peace for over half a century.
The 70-year-old Chinese man who hand-carved over 6,000 stairs up a mountain
for his 80-year-old wife has passed away in the cave which has been the
couple's home for the last 50 years.
Over
50 years ago, Liu Guojiang a 19 year-old boy, fell in love with a 29
year-old widowed mother named Xu Chaoqin .. 
In
a twist worthy of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet , friends and relatives
criticized the relationship because of the age difference and the fact that Xu
already had children. 
At
that time, it was unacceptable and immoral for a young man to love an
older woman.. To avoid the market gossip and the scorn of their communities,
the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave in Jiangjin County in
Southern ChongQing Municipality.
In
the beginning, life was harsh as they had nothing, no electricity or even food.
They had to eat grass and roots they found in the mountain, and Liu made
a kerosene lamp that they used to light up their lives.
Xu felt that she had tied Liu down and repeatedly asked him, 'Are you
regretful? Liu always replied, 'As long as we are industrious, life will
improve.'
In
the second year of living in the mountain, Liu began and continued for
over 50 years, to hand-carve the steps so that h is wife could get down
the mountain easily.
Half
a century later in 2001, a group of adventurers were exploring the
forest and were surprised to find the elderly couple and the over 6,000
hand-carved steps. Liu MingSheng, one of their seven children
said, 'My parents loved each other so much, they have lived in seclusion
for over 50 years and never been apart a single day. He hand carved more
than 6,000 steps over the years for my mother's convenience, although
she doesn't go down the mountain that much.'
The
couple had lived in peace for over 50 years until last week. Liu, now 72
years, returned from h is daily farm work and collapsed. Xu sat and
prayed with her husband as he passed away in her arms. So in love with
Xu, was Liu, that no one was able to release the grip he had on h is
wife's hand even after he had passed away.
'You prom is ed me you'll take care of me, you'll always be with me until the
day I died, now you left before me, how am I going to live without you?'
Xu spent days softly repeating this sentence and touching her husband's black
coffin with tears rolling down her cheeks.
In
2006, their story became one of the top 10 love stories from China , collected
by the Chinese Women Weekly. The local government has decided to preserve
the love ladder and the place they lived as a museum, so this love story
can live forever.
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