Here is a news story from Down Under that was just too good to pass up for posting. It is truly in this spirit that we started the "Don't Clog My Inbox" blog. A truce. A promise to not forward but rather to post the best of what we find out there - and are just tempted to send with the subject line "you gotta check this out."
By Rachel Pascoe October 20, 2003 The most annoying thing about chain emails is that people, despite knowing how stupid they are, forward them to everyone they know.
I am guilty of not forwarding such emails. Do you actually believe that if the email gets so many hits that it will buy an operation for some kid with three eyes? Or that if you don't send these pictures of a fake dead little girl that she will haunt you that night and kill you?
One of the sillier ones promises Bill Gates will give you and everyone you send "his" email a monetary reward. Get real, people.
There are a few different types of chain emails. The wish one (scroll down the page, make a wish and if you send it to 20 people, it will come true), the sympathy story... [ MORE ]
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