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| February 3rd, 2004 - Chain letters |
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is definitely a rant I'll continue to update. Chain letters I suppose they
started out in the mail or other more primitive ways years ago and now they
are in emails and newly instant messages. Chain letters typically come in 2
"flavors" ones that claim to give you joy and ones that threaten to kill or
bring sadness to you and are know being more frequently a mix of the two.
Chain letters typically ask you to send it out to other people, usually
about 10 people; chain letters work because 1. people are superstitious by
nature 2. The more people that send it out, it keeps growing, and it is near
impossible to trace back to the original author. The only way to "stop" a
chain letter is for everyone to not send it out, in the mail this works out
as people do not wish to spend money on postage, however on the internet it
has become more prevalent just as spam has do the fact it doesn't cost the
general public anything except the annoyance, for ISPs and such, as it it a
great problem as a form of spam and floods their servers. For me chain
letters are annoying because I try to not be superstitious as well as it is
stupid, however that doesn't keep it from getting to me, as in the ones
saying if you pass this on to 10 people your crush will fall in love with
you bullshit or the sad ones about someone that has died. For me I can
typically easily eliminate chain letters from my inbox without reading them,
which helps keep any of that compassion shit away, however the new instant
message chain letter trend is a serious problem, and unless there was a
real-time filtering system which could eliminate messages with phrases such
as send this to 20 people by midnight (of which I find funny because I often
do not have 20 people to send it to *rolls eyes*) Posted by: Kevin |
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