People who forward chain letters/internet petitions

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Attention, guilty parties (and no, I don't think anyone on this or CS boards are guilty, this is in general)!

Ya'll are sitting in front of the same internet I am. Please check your spam emails for horseshit before sending them on to me. Thank you.

What bugs me is that the perps tend to be people I otherwise have a certain amount of respect for, are otherwise intelligent, or whatever. Yet they think voodoo happens when they use up a lot of bandwidth and hit "send".

They also think internet petitions are worth something. Not only that, but most of the petitions are for hoax issues.

Sigh.

[Greenday]

I hate that crap. Like I don't get enough spam email as it is. Should just bitchslap everyone who does it.

[Lace Neil Singer]

This is the link I forwarded in the past to everyone who sent me that kind of shit.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp

I no longer get internet petitions. As for chain letters etc, they're all on snopes anyway so just look them up and send the link to the idiot list.

[powerboy]

I always get the same emails from my grandfather, uncles and dad. I just look at it and delete it. Or I just delete it.

[guywithashovel]

I used to get a lot of that kind of stuff. I don't anymore, though.

And I'll admit to sending some of that crap along when I was younger (like teenage). I was very superstitious back then. I'm glad I managed to break out of that state of mind. I hope everyone whose inboxes I inundated can find it in their hearts to forgive me.

[lupo pazzesco]

I like my mom's approach to this. If she finds the story interesting, or she thinks I'll get a kick out of the joke/petition, she'll send it to me, but she'll delete all the chain letter crap first, so I only get the body of the joke or whathaveyou.

I don't send them on, and while I'm laboring under a massive amount of bad luck this year, I don't think it's because I didn't send on "Little Jimmy, the Travelling Soldier whose grandma has cancer and needs to let women know about how they could be attacked by the new rampant computer viruses that will shut down your system, rob your bank account and eat your SOUL!" <Gasppantwheeeeeeze>

Ok, I'm done...

[RecoveringKinkoid]

What offends me so much is the "if you delete this you'll get bad luck."

Okay, let's examine that. If they forwarded it becuae they are superstitios, they just condemned you to bad luck! Who DOES that?

I typed out something that said "I'm at my mom's place, where the internet connection is bad. I can read stuff, but I can't send it back. I won't be going back home until after the deadline on the bad luck curse. If I die or suffer any sort of calamity, it's blah's blahs fault." Then I hit "reply all."

[guywithashovel]

What offends me so much is the "if you delete this you'll get bad luck."

Okay, let's examine that. If they forwarded it becuae they are superstitios, they just condemned you to bad luck! Who DOES that?

Even back when I used to send that stuff on, I never once thought of it that way, and I'm ashamed to say that. Then again, my critical thinking skills were very poor back then. Anytime someone warned me that some disaster would happen if I didn't do something, I would usually seriously consider doing it, just because of all the "what ifs" looming in my head. Fortunately, I managed to break myself free from it.

I guess when it comes to superstitious emails, it's every man for himself. (Or every woman for herself)

[Slytovhand]

I used to get those stupid ones that the gullible need to keep their lives interesting.. how harsh is that? Well, my engineering mate sent me the one about the police radar gun picking up the jet fighter crap one.... (I sent him the Snopes page on that). Funny, I haven't gotten any since then!

Chainmail of love* annoys me (*generic term for the fluffy bunny stuff...). Please, not interested, which might possibly explain why over the last 10 years, you've received all of.... hmmm, let me think, perhaps ... no "send this back to the person who sent it to you" (well, alright, I admit, I have sent a couple, but the poetry was actually ok... so it had merit on that aspect).


Don't chainmailers have a special kind of hell set aside for them??

(and dinjya just love the Microsoft/AOL job... send this to everyone and you'll get paid... HAHAHAHAHA!!!!)

[Boozy]

My mom just got internet access for the first time.

I am bracing myelf for an onslaught of LOLcats and "Help little Timmy" forwards.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

HA! Oh, you are in for a real "treat."

My mom did the same thing to me, but I guess she's gotten sick of being bombarded with a tidal wave of Snopes links, so she's toned it down a bit.

[protege]

I sometimes get even with people who forward crap. That is, on my webpage...there's a long list of email addresses. Those are people who have pissed me off. Why are they there? Simple...when the bots crawl the web, they have several new addresses to spam

[Lace Neil Singer]

A good antidote to lolcats is pedobear. *whistles*

[BroomJockey]

A good antidote to lolcats is pedobear. *whistles*

Or shotacat.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Indeed. Pedobear is more famous, tho. It's very hard to find decent Shotacat pics anywhere. XD