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V4ME
19th January 2007, 11:40
BEWARE: CHAIN EMAILS
Remember those awful threatening chain-letters? Well, the modern craze is In-emails. And there's a powerful reason why you shouldn't respond to them. Let me explain ... IF you forward the chain-email to 20 people within four days, and each of them forward it to 20 other people within four days - in 40 days, approximately 10 trillion of these messages will flood the Internet.
From day 40 to day 44, an additional 200 trillion of these messages will have crossed cyberspace, at an average of 50 trillion messages per day. And from day 44 to 48, an additional 4,000 trillion of these messages will be sent - at an average of 1,000 trillion messages a day, 41.7 trillion messages per hour, 694 billion messages per minute, or 11.6 billion messages per second.
Of course, the Internet will have ground to a halt way before then - and a good thing too. Because by day 44 (assuming each man, woman and child in the world is on the Internet) you'd be having to respond to about two chain-emails per second, sending off 20 responses each second, giving you 5/100ths of a second to send each message. If you dropped the ball, you'd break about 1,800,000 chain-letters per day - bringing almost two million times the bad luck upon yourself than if you broke the first chain letter to begin with.
See: It's better to break the initial chain-letter and receive one dose of bad luck - than to continue the chain letter and, by day 44, receive 1,800,000 doses of bad luck. Don't you agree-,
One poor fellow who chose the latter, ended up having 287,345 heart attacks, losing 5137 wives, getting fired from at least 100,000 jobs, and being run over by a truck. His Visa card was also revoked. Nobody liked him anymore. He finally ended up attempting suicide 459 times, but was so unlucky he never succeeded. When he finally resigned himself to the idea of not dying, he was immediately hit by a meteorite and vaporised. But his cells went on to experience even more bad luck.
Awful, eh ...

- Thanks to Grapevine Mag for this joke -

Squeak the Rat
19th January 2007, 11:47
Some bastard sent me this in a chain email:

V4ME
19th January 2007, 11:51
Some bastard sent me this in a chain email:

Bloody Hell!! - That's worse than getting a Pigs Head!!
:shit:

ManDownUnder
19th January 2007, 11:54
BEWARE: CHAIN EMAILS


LOL - and I'm guessing you want us to pass this on??? LOLOL!!!!!

V4ME
19th January 2007, 12:02
LOL - and I'm guessing you want us to pass this on??? LOLOL!!!!!

- Viral Marketing and all that - but HELL NO! not in this case!!!:shit:

placidfemme
19th January 2007, 12:07
thats really good...

What pisses me off more than twats sending me those chain mail emails is the super twats who leave ALL the previous email address's on the email, this is spammers heaven...

MikeyG
19th January 2007, 16:42
Drew read a chain text to me the other day. Said:

"This is a chain text. Send it to 5 people in the next 3 minutes and fuck all will happen to you. It works, I sent it on and fuck all has happened to me"

Beemer
20th January 2007, 22:16
Brilliant, I've just sent it to all the people who send me crap saying that if I don't send this email on within five minutes of opening it, something horrible will happen to me. I got one a few years ago, just after I'd come out of hospital and I had some business problems as well - it was the really nasty one (most are just stupid) that mentioned people who didn't bother to forward the email (her fiance was killed in a car accident), or didn't send it on for an hour (his wife lost their baby and had to be sterilised), or only sent it to three people instead of five because he didn't have many friends (he forgot to buy a Lotto ticket and the numbers he always picked came up that night), etc. I sent a message to the woman who sent it to me, saying I didn't appreciate getting emails like that. She responded and said that she thought I could do with the luck I could have had if I had forwarded it on to at least five people...

Sure, I've never won Lotto and my life isn't exactly stress or problem-free, but I sincerely doubt that has anything to do with me not forwarding chain emails!

Sniper
22nd January 2007, 08:12
I have little tolorence for people who send chain letters. Most seem to get added to a variety of dodgy website mailing lists. Which is great, they are too busy deleting emails to send anything on. :yawn: