Warning! Potential Chain Email Message!

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. Hello Friends, One Billion Educational Chain Message Warning! Today, with the click of a button, a message can be forwarded to hundreds of people at no apparent cost to the sender. If each of these "Good Samaritans" send the message to only ten other people (and most send to huge mailing lists), the ninth re-sending results in a billion messages, thereby, clogging the network and interfering with the receiving of legitimate e-mail messages. Factor in the time lost reading and deleting all these messages and you see a real cost to organizations and individuals from these seemingly innocuous messages. How do you recognize a chain letter? They all have a similar pattern. They all expect you to re-send the message, either by threat or by guilt, e.g. Will you e-mail this message to all on your mailing list, and ask them to pass it along to all on theirs? Sample of Chain Message Propagation: 100 x 10 = 1,000 1st re-send = 1,000 x 10 = 10,000 2nd re-send = 10,000 x 10 = 100,000 3rd re-send = 100,000 x 10 = 1 million 4th re-send = 1,000,000 x 10 = 10 mil 5th re-send = 10,000,000 x 10 = 100 mil 6th re-send = 100,000,000 x 10 = 1,000 mil 1000,000,000 = 1 billion (short-scale) 7th re-send = 1,000,000,000 x 10 = 10,000 mil 8th re-send = 10,000,000,000 x 10 = 100,000 mil 9th re-send = 100,000,000,000 x 10 = 1,000,000 mil 1,000,000,000,000 = 1 billion (long-scale) ... and this list... goes on... and on... and on... and on... .

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