I would encourage Santosh and the rest of the hoax
police to debunk every myth that comes across Goanet,
so that we know fact from fiction.
Then I would suggest we use our common sense to see
whether any suggestion that may have been made should
be kept in mind.
There was a good reason why some sage once said,
"Don't throw the baby out with the bath water".
--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Joe Vaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Unless of course, if one does not know what to do
> >with the spare time and energy, and so one enjoys
> >scrutinizing every such story. The point is: Use
> >the lesson in the story, if there is one in it.
> Why
> >not respect that readers are intelligent enough to
> >draw their own conclusions from a published
> >story?
> >
>
> I think the lessons that many reasonable people
> would
> draw from gratuitous posts such as the above, and
> the
> urban legends that it is trying to defend, are the
> following:
>
> 1. Open public forums are infested with urban
> legends
> and hoaxes, and nobody can do anything to prevent
> them
> from being spread.
>
> 2. It is important for people to debunk these myths,
> and expose the half-truths and lies contained in
> them.
>
> 3. There are people in this world, some of whom may
> be
> habitual purveyors of such chain letters, and copied
> and pasted material, themselves, who will
> desperately
> try to act as shills for this material.
>
> 4. No matter what anybody says, urban legends and
> plagiarized material would continue to be
> disseminated
> by people who do not know what to do with their
> spare
> time and energy.
>
> 5. No matter how many advocates come out in force to
> justify and defend the spread of chain letters,
> urban
> legends and hoaxes on Goanet, those of us who feel
> duty bound to debunk this garbage would continue to
> do
> our part as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Santosh
>
>
