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Gesendet am: Freitag, 2. Juni 2000 14:49
An: StoecherM@laudaair.com

...see?

OK,

Uncle Craig is going to take a stand.

<RANT>
The chance that chain Email will drag the Internet to a grinding halt by
sucking up bandwidth is substantially better that the chance that any such
Email will actually deliver on its promised cash payoff. The notion that
you can get money for forwarding Email is, and most likely always will be a
Hoax. There is no existing technology that can track Emails forwarded on
the Internet unless you forward the Email to a particular Email address that
can then tally the results. Of course, when you forward Email, YOU specify
who it goes to so you can be sure that you are not forwarding it to some
mystical Email counter which will promptly print off a check and mail it to
you. Even ignoring the technical unlikeliness of such a scheme, the
financial implications just make the whole idea absurd.

This particular chain Email is described nicely here -- including a
discussion of its likely origins:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/blintelaol.htm

In fact, this site even debunks the seemingly noble "little girl is dying"
and "NPR need support" emails as well as many others. For what its worth, I
can assure you that any Email you receive promising to make you rich (or at
least to help pay for your wedding) for doing nothing but using internet
bandwidth is bogus.

I realize now that I am just waving my hands in the air fruitlessly, but
it's making me feel slightly better for having to wait a minute for the
Email to download over my slow modem. Of course, I've now wasted 10 minutes
finding the above site and typing out this Email but I don't Email you guys
enough anyway, and instead let Susan dominate the correspondence. Given
that I probably seem like a total a-hole right now you probably would prefer
that it stay that way. Nontheless, PLEASE don't send us chain Email -- we
don't want it.
</RANT>

Hope everyone is well...

-Craig

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