(Legal, Non-Monetary) Chain Letter, And Exponential Growth.

About 10 years ago, I came up with this idea for a chain letter. Here it is in its entirety:

Anyways, please note it does not involve money. Because that is illegal--and rather stupid, too.

As I've said, I have been sharing it for over 10 years now. It is interesting, because it follows the idea of exponential growth. By starting it, I may be the originator of something very big--and good too, I think.

I have run into some successes with it, and some setbacks.

I took this philosophy of religion class, in community college, about a decade ago. And I shared my idea with my professor. He told me it was pointless, because everyone would just ignore it. I hope he was wrong. Also, although it is legal, and ethical, I found the hard way that you can't share via Hotmail. I did, and they promptly cancelled my account. Now, I can only share via the U.S. post office, since they are governed by the First Amendment, and not just their arbitrary internal rules, like Hotmail.

That actually brings me, though, to my next question: How can I share it via the internet, if I know Hotmail won't allow it? Are there any email servers that do? Please share one with me, if you know of one. U.S. mail is fine. But it ain't cheap. And it is rather crude too, in the modern post-internet age we now live in.

:guitarist:

 

i agree with your professor that it will probably be ignored.

how did hotmail catch you? i don't know the email rules on chain letters, but if any popular servers cancel account for sharing them, then it could theoretically get a lot of accounts cancelled if it does get passed along.

plus, at this point, who has anyone else's email address anyway? emails are just used for business, or for old people to forward cute pictures and racist jokes to their other old friends and their kids.

if you really want to share it on the internet, why not do one of those things where you post it as your facebook status, and tell other people to copy it onto their statuses? like how old people always post shit like "facebook has new privacy rules, and if you don't copy and paste this into your status then facebook will come into your house and cornhole you."

 

By the time you sent this letter to everybody on earth they would be dead... So would you.

 

i don't feel obligated to make ten copies of anything and try to figure out who ten people are i would send it to.

other then that, sure, fine, have fun.

 

wasn't there a movie about this

I mean not about e-mails, obviously

 

What's the point? Even if it works, hitting forward doesn't show you love someone.

Anyway, as trivial as I find it, you can set up your own email server in like ten minutes.

http://www.tecmint.com/setup-postfix-mail-server-in-ubuntu-debian/

It will get flooded by spam, and your ISP probably has rules against it, so I wouldn't like send tens of thousands of emails out. It's probably better to set up a VPS in Russia or somewhere and put your email server there.

You can also use MailChimp and send out tons of your spam.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxB43PxasGA

the kids at 2:15 remind me of hipforumers

 

Is the teacher Frank Underwood? xD

Oh yeah, I remember that movie now.