I Hate People
So I just got a junk e-mail.
Not a normal randomly-sent one, no. Someone sent by a student. Yes, one of those stupid foward-or-else message. Except I don't know this student. How did I get it? Well, she forwarded this stupid junk message to all her class lists. Apparently I was in a class with her last semester, so of course I get to be on her mass-forwarding splurge as well.
It is, of course, one of those blatantly untrue e-mails promising you tens of thousands of dollars from Bill Gates if you forward it to a few people. Yeah, right. It starts with all this "I'm an attorney and this is true! Really! BELIEVE ME! I know it doesn't seem true, but really, it is! How many exclamation points must I use before you trust me??!?" Ugh.
She titled the forward "hey what do we have to lose."
So I sent a reply.
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What we have to lose is our sanity.
Please, please do not send junk mail and spam through class lists. I don't want to have to deal with this junk, and neither does anyone else.
Microsoft can't track e-mail going through your computer. Bill Gates will not give you $10,000 for something he can do himself in 10 seconds. If you believe any of this, you are a fool and probably shouldn't be at this fine institution.
Go to http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.asp and read. Not that you should have to - anything this good will never be true.
I'm sorry for being harsh. I just can't stand this sort of behavior. I hate randomly-sent junk mail - this sort of stupid forwarding is worse, though.
Thank you for your time,
Evan DeBack
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I probably should've been harsher, but I felt sorry for the dumb girl. She probably lost all her brain cells to a tragic beer bong accident or something.
Not a normal randomly-sent one, no. Someone sent by a student. Yes, one of those stupid foward-or-else message. Except I don't know this student. How did I get it? Well, she forwarded this stupid junk message to all her class lists. Apparently I was in a class with her last semester, so of course I get to be on her mass-forwarding splurge as well.
It is, of course, one of those blatantly untrue e-mails promising you tens of thousands of dollars from Bill Gates if you forward it to a few people. Yeah, right. It starts with all this "I'm an attorney and this is true! Really! BELIEVE ME! I know it doesn't seem true, but really, it is! How many exclamation points must I use before you trust me??!?" Ugh.
She titled the forward "hey what do we have to lose."
So I sent a reply.
---
What we have to lose is our sanity.
Please, please do not send junk mail and spam through class lists. I don't want to have to deal with this junk, and neither does anyone else.
Microsoft can't track e-mail going through your computer. Bill Gates will not give you $10,000 for something he can do himself in 10 seconds. If you believe any of this, you are a fool and probably shouldn't be at this fine institution.
Go to http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.asp and read. Not that you should have to - anything this good will never be true.
I'm sorry for being harsh. I just can't stand this sort of behavior. I hate randomly-sent junk mail - this sort of stupid forwarding is worse, though.
Thank you for your time,
Evan DeBack
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I probably should've been harsher, but I felt sorry for the dumb girl. She probably lost all her brain cells to a tragic beer bong accident or something.