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 -
No road is straight forever'
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Originally Posted by Squeak the Rat
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