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November 06, 2003

Trust, but verify!

Many of you have probably already seen this, but it's always good to have handy. Snopes is a website where you can verify - or not - all those emails and stories that float around the web and offices. In a world where "trust no one" is sound advice, it's successfully countered with "the truth is out there."

Per this story which I rec'd from my agent Bill Yardley today, Civilians give up their seats on commercial flight to soldiers on leave from Iraq the sender also included the fact that the Snopes site said it was true. Sort of like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval for the Internet?

FutureQuote:
Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?
(Who guards the guardians?)
- Juvenal, Roman poet and satirist

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