Is that email story true??

Don't believe every cybermyth, urban legend, hoax or virus "alert" sent to you. Ever wondered if anyone makes the money promised in those work-at-home advertisements? If that virus-scare they say was covered on major news channels is true?? Or if each forwarded e-mail will really mean a donation of 10 cents from Microsoft to an orphan's organ-transplant operation? The answer is almost always NO!!. Most of these “stories” are hoaxes, urban legends, e-mail rumors, scams or in some cases pure financial fiction.

Don’t be part of the problem “by spreading untrue information”. Investigage and check them out - before you send this type of information to family and friends take a few minutes to validate the information, just visit one of the following websites:

www.breakthechain.org
www.snopes.com
www.truthorfiction.com
www.urbanlegends.about.com

for a verbal reminder of this information, check out this link...
http://info.org.il/irrelevant/may02-smilepop-soapbox4.swf

EMAIL - REMINDERS & UPDATES

Emails are meant to be brief - Avoid long sentences.
Try to keep sentences to a maximum of 15-20 words. Email is meant to be a quick and is different than writing a letter. When email are too long, they don't get read. If you need to send a letter, compose that in Word and attach it, so that it can be printed off and read as such

Don't forward virus hoaxes or chain letters.
We all get them – warnings of an unstoppable virus; promises of great wealth or – you know the emails I’m referring to… Even if the contents are accurate, the original senders usually are not, so consider just putting it in the Recylce Bin. If you feel you must share it, please be sure to verify the contents before forwarding it to anyone by checking one of these website:

http://www.truthorfiction.com/

http://www.breakthechain.org/

http://www.snopes.com/

Remove all email addresses before you use Forward
When you forward an email, it will be copied and in your “compose or write” screen so that you can work with it – be sure that you always remove any and all other email addresses that might be showing in the message before you send it out to your list… \

Of course when you send an email to more than one address you always put the addresses in the BCC field right??…

HAVE A MSN/HOTMAIL/LIVE ACCOUNT?? Get all your e-mail in one place
You can now receive e-mail from other e-mail accounts right in to your Windows Live Hotmail inbox. Any service that's "POP-enabled" will work, including AOL, Gmail, and Yahoo! Mail (Plus).* Here's how to set it up. From your Hotmail inbox:
1. Click Add an e-mail account (it's on the left-hand side of the screen).
2. Type your other account's e-mail address and password, and click Next.
3. Select whether you want the messages to go to your inbox or separate folder, click Save.

Note: For this to work, make sure POP has been turned on in the e-mail service you're trying to bring into Hotmail (this could involve logging in to the service and changing your settings).