on 11/14/03 5:49 PM, Bruce Klutchko at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Also about SPAM, does anybody know anyone who admits to buying from
> spammers? Obviously, somebody buys, or spammers would be out of business.
There are plenty of morons, ehm, I mean, ignorant people out there. I find
that the folks responding to spammers (or who actually think their business
can benefit from spamming) are the same ones who think that Bill Gates will
send them $5,000 if they forward 50 e-mails, or who think the Red Cross will
donate $1 for ever e-mail they forward.
In other words, real stupid average joe's or jane's.
I (as have you) invariably had the same problem with family members who just
received e-mail accounts, and are thus clueless. After the 2nd or 3rd such
junk sent to me (not to forget the 'pixie of happiness who will reward me
with good fortune if I forward 50 e-mails' - I kid you not), I invariably
send them a copy of the following. In 90% of all cases, it gets the point
across:
The Best Chain Letter Ever
Hello, my name is Amber and I suffer from
the guilt of not forwarding 50
billion fucking chain letters sent to me
by people who actually believe
that if you send them on, a poor
6-year-old girl in Arkansas with a
breast on her forehead will be able to raise
enough money to have it removed
before her redneck parents sell her to a
traveling freak show.
Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates
is going to give you, and everyone
to whom you send "his" email, $1000?
How stupid are we?
"Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down
this page and make a wish,
I'll get laid by a model I just happen to
run into the next day!"
What a bunch of bullshit.
Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns
will come into my house and
sodomize me in my sleep for not
continuing a chain letter that was
started by Peter in 5 AD and brought to this
country by midget pilgrims on
the Mayflower.
Fuck them.
If you're going to forward something, at
least send me something mildly
amusing. I've seen all the "send this to
10 of your closest friends,and
this poor, wretched excuse for a human
being will somehow receive a nickel
from some omniscient being" forwards
about 90 times.
I don't fucking care.
Show a little intelligence and think
about what you're actually
contributing to by sending out these
forwards. Chances are, it's our
own unpopularity.
The point being? If you get some chain
letter that's threatening to leave
you shagless or luckless for the rest of
your life, delete it.
If it's funny, send it on.
Don't piss people off by making them feel
guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth who has
been tied to the ass of a dead
elephant for 27 years and whose only
salvation is the 5 cents per letter
he'll receive if you forward this email.
Now forward this to everyone you know.
Otherwise, tomorrow morning your
underwear will turn carnivorous and
will consume your genitals.
Have a nice day
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