Round Robin Emails Why?

[Gardener]

What is the fascination with these bl**dy things? We have a friend in the UK who insists on sending them, they are often trite, sickly, not funny and because the sender is superstitious any email that claims bad luck will befall the recipient if they fail to send it on, inevitably finds its way to us, if they really believe bad luck will befall them and I suspect they do, how nice of them to pass this bad luck around, it's your problem now!

The emails just get deleted, but what really irks me is the fact that people who I don't know , have never met have now got my email address and I theirs.

I found this by Billy Connolly and I am sorely tempted to send it to all of them inc those whose names were on the email and let the original sender deal with the fall out.

"Hello, my name is Billy and I suffer from guilt for not forwarding 50 billion f**ing chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe, if you send them on, a poor six-year-old girl in Scotland 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 travelling freak show.

And, do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give $1000 to you, and everyone to whom you send 'his' email?

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 sodomise me in my sleep for not continuing a chain letter that was started by St Peter in 5AD and brought to this country by midget pilgrim stowaways on the Endeavour.

F**k 'em!!

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 f**ing 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 arse 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.

Billy Connolly"

[Quillan]

I might keep a copy of BC's letter if thats OK.

Your quite right in thats it's not so much the content of the letter but all the email address's it's ether sent directly too or CCed too, very dangerous. A guy I used to employ who set up Internet 'post offices' told me, but I don't know if it's true, that the email itself can contain a script or something that sends a list of who it was addressed too back to a central place where they harvest the address's. To be honest I use Mail Washer to 'Bounce' them back so they never get opened. Another thing I was told that it was a low level way of 'service denial' in that all these emails running around addressed to hundreds of people slow the Internet down, again I don't know if thats true either. I am surprised that anyone can be stupid enough to believe that somebody actually gets money from simply sending an email but there you go.

I also have a friend who regularly sends me these joke emails addressed to hundreds of people, very annoying. I told him not too and then got accused of having a humour bypass.

[AnOther]

Set up a filter to bounce his/her mails back.

Either that or sign them up for a few things which will clog up their inbox with peurile tat.

I have a couple of acquaintances (friends are something else [;-)]) who occassionally send or Cc me stuff and I wouldn't mind if it were funny but it usually isn't !