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You receive an e-mail chain letter, and you know you shouldn't
forward it to ten of your friends: they'll curse your name for clogging up
their mailboxes and for wasting Internet bandwidth. But you don't want the
bad karma that they say comes from breaking the chain... At Chain Letters Anonymous, we understand the anxiety of breaking the chain. We want to help you overcome "forward-button addiction" and the superstitious intoxication that brings computer networks to a crawl. Not everyone has the strength to quit cold turkey, and we fully understand. To help you gradually stop sending chain letters, volunteers at Chain Letters Anonymous are available 24-hours a day in case you "fall off the inbox" and really, really need to send a chain letter to ten of your friends. But if you don't get help from us, please, please, do not send that chain letter to anyone else.
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 At Chain Letters Anonymous our volunteers are specially trained in superstition avoidance - we can help you break the chain! |
Please use one of the following methods to safely send your chain letter. We cannot guarantee that you will receive the benefits described in the letter (in fact we think it's a load of bunk), but at least you will not be the last link in a broken chain.
- On-line Submittal
This is the quickest way to get that chain letter off your hands, plus it consumes the least amount of Internet bandwidth! - Postal Mail Submittal
If you have received a real old-fashioned printed chain letter in the mail, here are some real old-fashioned postal addresses where you can send it.
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About CLAA little bit about CLA's founders, plus how you can contact us.
CIAC: Hoaxbusters
"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 the so-called good
Samaritans sends the letter on to only ten other people (most send to huge
mailing lists), the ninth resending results in a billion e-mail messages,
thereby, clogging the network and interfering with the receiving of
legitimate e-mail messages."
The Computer Incident Advisory Capability describes various
Internet chain letters, and philosophizes thusly:
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