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.
Go to: Bad Netizenship.