Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #00111
To: Jarrell Clark Jclark76@bellsouth.net
From: "Paul B. Webster VK2BZC" pwebster@clinipath.com.au
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 17:54:26 +1000
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: I hate to do this
Jarrell Clark wrote:
> Before you forward any chain letter check to see if it is legit.
I have problems with that statement. All chain letters are of course
legitimate *to the extent that they are chain letters*. In normal
English (American) parlance, the association "legitimate chain letter"
is called an "oxymoron".
The thing is, forwarding a chain letter to *anyone* is making the
statement "I think that you will enjoy this because my mental age is
under 13 and I think yours is too". This with due apologies to all
intelligent 11- and 12-year olds of course.
Spamming a chain letter to a mailing list is (with certain particular
lists excepted I daresay, but I wouldn't know about these lists), a
request for termination from that list.
Except perhaps on April first or if you can point out something
particularly humorous about the particular letter. But I can't find
anything *at all* humorous about the Walt Disney spam. It's really
pathetic (though to be honest, the Cancer ones are in worse taste).
Please, *NEVER, EVER* spam chain letters to mailing lists. Consider
the other list users your *good friends,* and treat them accordingly.
--
Cheers,
Paul B.
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