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Re: A86: Re: Fwd: Fw: FW: [Fwd: This is wicked cool!! it really works!! You ...


preach brotha!


In a message dated 11/24/98 8:49:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, electrum@tfs.net
writes:

>  
>  Are you dumb enough to believe this kind of stuff?  This kind of stuff is
>  exactly why people hate aol and don't use it.  Anything like this obviously
>  fake!  Do _not_ send forwards of _anything_ to the list, unless it has
>  relevance to assembly programming!  If aol people wonder why you get so
much
>  spam, there are two reasons:
>  
>  1) AOL sucks, and it is easy for someone to collect thousands of aol email
>  address with little effort
>  2) You aol people forward chain mail around (I guess aol people have no
life
>  and nothing better to do).  All someone has to do is make up a little bogus
>  stuff about money and aol people will jump on it (maybe to pay for their
>  outrageously expensive aol account).  Guess what, by sending me this
message
>  with all the headers intact, I now have a few thousand email addresses to
>  send spam to!  Just write a little program to extract all the address and
>  dump them to a text file.  Wouldn't take more than an hour or so in C.  So
>  by forwarding chain letters, you are giving out your own email address and
>  all of your recipients as well.  I'm sure your "friends", especially those
>  with real isp's appreciate this.  Why is this fake?
>  
>  First, what kind "tracking program" is going to be used?  Anything like
that
>  is obviously fake.  Second, why would banks just hand out money because you
>  can forward an email to hundreds of email addresses?  Banks aren't in the
>  business of giving out cash.  However, I'm sure spammers would love to get
>  all your friend's email addresses.  Third, multi-level-marketing schemes
>  that involve buying reports and such, are fake due to a little math.  If
>  _everyone_ can make $50,000, where does it all come from?  If I only pay
>  $20, then I can only receive $20.  Simple...
>  
>  If you want spam, then you need to subscribe to aol.  If you want to talk
>  about assembly programming, then you are at the right place.  Let's not
>  combine the two, please...
>