I have often been the recipient of copious amounts of chain mail and service invitations from acquaintances and “friends”. My normal response is to hit the Delete button without even looking at the content. I know these chain mails often feature an emotional plea for some small child or other, but I have always held that such emails are a waste of everyone’s time and are a prime cause of unwanted and costly network congestion.
Today I received one such email, along with the 40 email addresses the last person had sent it to. But this one made me sit up. It had come, via a friend, from my sister! Well, I was not happy. She soon found herself being lectured about all the reasons why it was so terrible to forward chain mail.
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