Urban Legions

Have you ever received an e-mail as part of a "Beta test "of some new e-mail software? Then were told how you could be one of the many that would be paid money for forwarding that e-mail? How about the cyber version of a chain letter? Or maybe the real story about a secret plot by our government; where they are monitoring our e-mail to determine how much they can charge us in the future!

Well folks:

Bill Gates does not give away a thousand dollars to people who beta test his e-mail services. There are no chain letters that will bring you luck, wealth, health or happiness if un-broken and the government can't charge for e-mail.

These are all urban legions of the new cyber-generation. They do however consume processor cycles on mail servers, eat up enormous amounts of disk space on storage devices and decrease bandwidth on phone lines that were originally designed to carry voice and now carry both voice and data.

Junk mail invades our mailboxes and junk e-mail invades our inboxes. Passing along unsolicited mail is in no ones best interest. Imagine what your friends and family would think if you packaged up every piece of your junk mail wrapped it with duct tape and then mailed it to them! Think of the amount of postage you would pay! Yet people think nothing about hitting the forward button on their e-mail and sending worthless drivel on to someone else.

So the next time someone sends you e-mail that sounds like something you were told back in Jr. high School but with a cyber twist; chances are you have become part of the growing misuse of the Internet.

PS:

Please make seven copies of this and pass it along to other people that you know. It will bring them good luck, wealth, health and happiness if un-broken.

Bill Gates will pay you one thousand dollars for everyone that sends him the original copy; but don't let the government find out because they will charge you even more for your e-mail.