OMG they're going to shut down msn!!!!!!

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These are really starting to get on my nerves now. There seems to be a constant barrage of them at the moment. Anyone else got this one? At least hopefully they will finally seace or at least people will get wise to it. :rolleyes:
 
I have plenty of stupid friends (even a few on AOL :o) and I don't get these. Lucky, eh? :p

Most of them have realised it is a joke now, and it won't happen. :)
 
yeh i got that one (well, very similar) a few days ago.

First one ive had in ages. my hotmail account has just started getting ~1-2 spam email/day too, its its been spam free since 1998! :D
 
I recived that email from a friend, with this added to the bottom:
Right, for anyone who thinks that the above email has any element of truth
in it:

- Hotmail only ever communicate with their customers directly and would
never require anyone to forward emails like this in order to pass on a
message (it creates a lot of connection/memory/processor bandwidth problems
as the number of people sending/recieving emails theoretically could grow
exponentially if everyone forwards the email

- The spelling and grammar is terrible in the email, Microsoft pay a lot of
people a lot of money to avoid mistakes like that

- After playing with the Hotmail registration interface, I have calculated
at Hotmail.com alone there is no chance of all the 'names' ever being taken.
The longest valid username is 54 characters. The first character must be
a letter between a-z, the other 53 can be a-z, 0-9, '-', '_' or '.'

This leads to the calculation

26 x 39^53 =
55131209498832509819122632808352665118605646342295304980457228592425013384258955594294
possible combinations of usernames. To put this into perspective it's 5.5 x
10^85, compared to the world population of 6.6 x 10^9 (6600000000). Think
about it. That's
8353213560429168154412520122477676533122067627620500754614731604912880815796
(8.3 x 10^75) per person in the world, including the 90 year old blind deaf
lepers in Africa, new born babies, the mentally retarded etc.

Bearing in mind this is just for Hotmail.com, so hotmail.co.uk, hotmail.fr,
all passport-registered ISPs etc also increase this number. Basically
there's no chance all the usernames will ever be taken. Ever.

- Incidentally if you want to pay for a Hotmail account then the price is
just £14.99 a year

- Yes I really should be starting the coursework for tomorrow, but all the
identical emails I've been getting recently are really starting to get on my
****, I just wanted to put a few people straight about it all

Cheers,
Sam.

(ps sorry if the math's ********, feel free to correct me)
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My msn is spam free as well, that why it really annoys me when i get one of these. My friends probably hate me now as I've started sending a note about the fact they arent real to everyone on the address list. Hopefully sometime they will get the point.
 
I replied to one with the link from snopes, and my friend said it was just because it was fun and they knew it wasn't real. Interesting definition of fun, obviously they haven't ventured out and explored much on the internet.
 
[TW]Fox said:
It depresses me how I keep getting these from people I know in real life as good friends with a high level of intelligence :rolleyes:
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yup, i know what ya mean!

i think my favourite one is the "you're going to have to start paying" one thats STILL going round from the BBC news article online from february 2001!

i get it from people, click reply all and say "check the news date"
 
There was a story on the BBC about this where the original hoax originated from 2001 when Hotmail was introducing the pay service. Even they had a laugh it seems at the amount of people falling for it.
 
Sirrel Squirrel said:
I'm still trying to work out the point of these chain emails, what the hell does the person who started it achieve, it's not like they're trying to sell you viagra or something
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just clogs up networks and mail servers with crap.

tbh, my spam filter spots these a mile off and i only see them on forums where it does exactly the same.
 
I worked out away to stop people from sending me chain mail :D
Ive only done it to one person but so far they have stopped sending them.
She sent me one and it said i have to send it to at least 15 addresses so what i did was sent it back to her 15 times :p
She hasn't sent me once since :D
 
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