There are good ones that I don't pass on.


Perhaps there can be too much of a good thing. Even an email message that deserves to be forwarded will get thrown into the trash without a glance after it's made the rounds numerous times. That being the case, perhaps I can still credit myself with good behavior even when I don't forward something that actually merits being forwarded, basing such a claim on the not totally illogical idea that by limiting the number of forwards of a positive message I'm helping it remain respectable. But I suppose that all this really proves is that no definitive definition of good Netizenship can be clearly determined. One truly upstanding Israeli Netizen, for instance, devotes a great deal of time to validating or discrediting emailed items that make the rounds. In comparison, my behavior - of sending links to his findings when doing so is called for - is perhaps lower on the good Netizenship scale, but may still garner me some brownie points. And frankly, I'm happy to defer to his better judgment, which perhaps happens more than just occasionally. Just recently, for instance, he gave the green light to forwarding a message that I had chosen to stifle.



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