Heres a chain email i received the other day about the aforementioned topic:
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Subject: ATTENTION
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:22:47 +1030
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HI guys
Sorry to break the news, but looks like all of those warnings were real!
The use of msn and mail will cost money from summer 2007. If you send this
message to 18 different people from your list your little msn icon will
become blue and that will make it free for you. If you dont believe me go on
(www.msn.com) and see it yourself. Dont foward this message, copy paste it
so people will actually read it.> Hey it is Andy and john the directors of
MSN, sorry for the interruption but
msn is closing down. this is because too many inconsiderate people are
taking up all the name (eg making up lots of different accounts for just one
person), we only have 578 names left. If you would like to close your
account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. If you would like to keep your
account, then SEND THIS
MESSAGE
TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. This is no
joke, we will be shutting down the servers. Send it on, thanks.
WHO EVER DOES NOT SEND THIS MESSEAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE CLOSED AND YOU
WILL COST £10.00 A MONTH TO USE. SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST.
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO. PLEASE DO NOT FORWARD THIS or REPLAY. COPY THE
WHOLE EMAIL. GO BACK TO YOUR INBOX AND CLICK ON NEW. AND PASTE THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION
hey everyone, i dont normally send this sort of stuff out but had a look on
the internet and its
actually true . On the 30th of november , we will have
to pay for the use of our MSN and email accounts unless we send this message
to at least 18 contacts on your contact list. It’s no joke if you don’t
believe me then go to the site
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1189119.stm) and see for yourself.
Anyways once you’ve sent this message to at least 18 contacts, your msn dude
will become blue. please copy and paste don’t forward cos people won’t take
notice of it
My rebuttal:
1) You neglected to read the date on that article. MSN CHAT was the
item to close down in 2001 (it was due to people flooding their chat
rooms and such).
2) MSN is ran by a fucking multinational corporation which makes
BILLIONS of dollars of profit per year and has almost unlimited
computing resources.
3) That parent company makes the worlds most popular operating system
and web browser.
4) There is over 40 billion combinations of email addresses for ONE
domain. So multiply that by four or five, then its simply infinite.
(@live.com, @hotmail.com, @msn.com)
5) Microsoft makes more profit from msn than it costs them to run it.
MSN is also the most popular IM system on the internet.
6) If it really was closing down, there would be a huge fucking
uproar. Go to http://mess.be Is msn closing down? No.
7) Once again, http://chat.msn.com/ was what closed down, not Windows
Live Messenger.
Dont forward this shit to me again.
Regards,Brent
Alls well that ends well.
