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Superstitious Emails |
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The superstitious email - the type that preys on the most credulous and gullible people in cyberspace. The type that serves literally no purpose but to propagate and annoy. We have all seen them, send this to 10 people or have bad luck for 12 years – send this to 20 people or you’ll never find love – its all the same meaningless drivel. Many variants of the superstitious email include apparent success stories of people who did send it and received good luck (e.g. within 10 days I got promoted!) – though curiously don’t offer any explanation to how the success stories got added to the email after it was already sent? Maybe an excellent example of foresight perhaps? If you do find it hard to say no to these types of chain mail, think of 2 things – 1. Does you equally silly email contact want to be burdened with this waste of time? 2. If for example the email promises good luck for 10 years and you send it to the required amount of people, what happens when you get the next email that threatens bad luck? Is the above contract voided? Do you want to enter into such a silly fickle agreement with the writer of this email? How does the writer of this email even know you will receive bad luck if you don’t send it on? Witches maybe, though we would imagine black magic, voodoo and the sorts have better things to do than track forwarded mail. Generally we recommend just seeing it for what it is, a waste of time and bandwidth, and please do everyone a favour and send this straight to the recycling bin. |
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