Carrying on from the cyber world, one can practise e-mail hygiene to keep spam away. Email hygiene refers to the set of principles or practices that reduce spam and protect a computer from viruses and other threats embedded in e-mail messages. It can also keep e-mail fatigue away; the mental exhaustion caused by receiving a large number of e-mail messages each day. This variety of hygiene leads to data hygiene, principles and practices that serve to maintain accuracy in computer data.

All computer savvy people are familiar with the sentimental or uplifting story delivered via e-mail, which uses inaccurate or fabricated facts and is mostly melodramatic and maudlin. This is the glurge, a word that originated at the website snopes.com in 1998 where it is described as 'chicken soup with several cups of sugar mixed in.' One of the participants on this site, Patricia Chapin, coined glurge, simultaneously naming the genre and describing its effect, to describe the sickening sensation this category of stories brought.

A similar collection circulated via fax has taken on the name fax lore. There is Xerox lore as well, a modern form of folklore in which anecdotes, lists, jokes, sayings and urban myths are propagated via photocopied documents. The mainstream media stories about the Internet that have little or no basis in fact have been given the title cyburban myths, along the lines of suburban added to myth.

Now, a bit of a diversion: mahi is one word that is today found in the lyrics of most Bollywood numbers. The origin of this term of endearment could be attributed to any one of these interesting roots. In Persian, mah means the moon, as in mahtab and mahjabin. As the Persian influence was quite strong in West Punjab, this could be a possibility, especially since the colloquial chand mahiya also is from the same region. The second possible origin can be traced back to the time of Heer-Ranjha. Ranjha was employed as a cowherd at Heer's household, and in Punjabi a cowherd is mahiyan charan wala, so mahi can be the shortened version of this title.