IP: re What you see on CNN is not what you thought -- BBC on CNN

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 19:39:19 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Lenny Foner <foner () media mit edu>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: IP: What you see on CNN is not what you thought -- BBC on CNN
> CC: foner () media mit edu
>
>     Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 19:12:36 -0400
>     From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
>
> The message below has been debunked---the message -itself- even
> appears in the debunking.  See http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/outrage/cnn.htm.
>
> (What we need is some technology to do searches of various phrases,
> preferably those likely to be conserved across editing, which then
> tries searching for them on Snopes & so forth.  A handy tool to do
> this might be a useful button to have on one's mailer---a button that
> says, "Please check to see if I'm likely to be forwarding an urban
> legend."  Obviously, the choice of whom to ask, and whether the button
> gets pushed at all, had better be completely up to the user, lest we
> discourage people from sending items not properly "blessed" by a few
> sources chosen via dubious means... :)



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