[SGVLUG] Looking for a better "snopes" site

Marsden MacRae mmacrae at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 29 15:14:20 PDT 2005


Emerson, Tom wrote:
> Every now and then I get something from someone that is (to me) a
> well known internet "urban legend", chain-mail, or otherwise not
> worth promoting/repeating anymore.  My usual response is to return a
> link to the particular myth write-up on snopes, <snip> 
> 
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a snopes-like site [explaining
> sources of urban/internet legends] that doesn't have a high
> "annoyance" factor?  (pop-ups, pop-unders,
> potentially-malware-infested links, etc.)
> 
> 


I like to use
http://urbanlegends.about.com/index.htm?terms=urban+legends

Haven't had any trouble with popups and their search engine finds what i 
want pretty quickly

Marsden



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