# Snopes saves me again! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 10, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-saves-me-again/263926 "2004-09-10T17:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-saves-me-again/263926/1 "2004-09-10T17:01:00Z")
One of my oldest and best friends is a teacher at an elementary school. She sent me an e-mail asking me to help with a student’s science project. The e-mail consisted of instructions and a list of first names. I was supposed to copy and past the entire e-mail into a new message, add my name to the list if it wasn’t there already, send it back to my friend and send it on to an additional 10 people. Repeat ad nauseam. Well, the whole thing sounded strange to me. Who starts science fair projects in early September? And my friend never said that this project was for one of _her_ students. Since she has a bad habit of forwarding chain letter-type e-mails (“send this happy flower picture to 25 people and see how many responses you get!”), I figured I’d check Snopes. [Guess what I found?](http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/school/names.asp) The first line about the teacher’s daughter was changed, but the rest of it was identical. This is about the tenth time I’ve sent her a link to Snopes after she sent me a chain e-mail. I’m hoping she’ll get the hint. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-saves-me-again/263926/2 "2004-09-10T17:11:39Z")
> [@ladybug](#): > > This is about the tenth time I’ve sent her a link to Snopes after she sent me a chain e-mail. I’m hoping she’ll get the hint. Sometimes they get the hint and stop fowarding stuff—and sometimes they get a different hint and stop forwarding stuff _to you_. Either way, you win. 😃 Congratulations on striking another blow in the fight against ignorance! ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-saves-me-again/263926/3 "2004-09-10T17:22:20Z")
I’ve been sending the snopes links out “reply to all” so that not only is the sender corrected, but everyone else that they sent it to knows the sender is an idiot. You’d be amazed how few “forwards” I get now. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-saves-me-again/263926/4 "2004-09-11T00:22:05Z")
**Podkayne** , I couldn’t agree more. I’ll just be happy to stop getting this stuff. **Ruby** , I actually considered sending my e-mail “reply to all,” but I thought my friend might be upset by that. I think she really believed she was helping with some kid’s project. The “forward this to 200 people and get free M&Ms” e-mails, on the other hand, might just get a reply to all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-saves-me-again/263926/5 "2004-09-11T00:26:58Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > You’d be amazed how few “forwards” I get now. This is how it went for me. My one sister, the glurge queen, no longer forwards anything to me! ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snopes-saves-me-again/263926/6 "2004-09-11T00:32:24Z")
The only solution is to reply to all. Eventually they will be shamed into stopping. Haj