From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 3 0:44:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D215137B423 for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 00:44:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f437iPq40943 ; Thu, 3 May 2001 09:44:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id JAA77456 ; Thu, 3 May 2001 09:44:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:44:35 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: World wide email project, please help. Message-ID: <20010503094435.A77195@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Brett Glass , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3AF03D60.15FFEDBC@dobox.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010502182806.046ac670@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20010502182806.046ac670@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 06:35:48PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brett Glass said on May 2, 2001 at 18:35:48: > At 11:01 AM 5/2/2001, Wes Peters wrote: > > >This is a real project, not a hoax. > > Many chain letters that were not intended to be circulated in perpetuity > have gotten out of control. They've continued to make the rounds for > years afterward, consuming bandwidth and making sysadmins miserable. (See > http://urbanlegends.about.com/.) To start another is very ill-advised, I agree. And a lot of internet users (perhaps the majority today) are still very trusting of all email they receive, which makes the problem worse. I refuse to forward this, or any other mail which says "please forward to everyone you know". - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message