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LyrikUebersetzer
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My mother forwarded me a chain email today. Bill Gates apparently wants to give me $1000 for every person I forward it to. The email claims Microsoft is "testing the USPS system for a new email tracker"

I have written a 47-line rebuttal [1] including an analysis of the SMTP headers showing the originating server is not even registered in the same continent as Redmond. She will not read it. She will forward the rebuttal to twelve more people with the subject line "interesting, might be true".

This is what we are fighting against. Not the system. The system is fine. The system is fighting against my mother forwarding me garbage about Bill Gates and his "email tracking experiment" :spitfire:

[1] available upon request, annotated in both English and German, v. 1.2

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MarshmallowMaze
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lyrik ur mum n my mum must be in the same chain email cult lol :banghead: mine forwarded me one about gabriel bein the SECOND coming of jesus with a toaster prophecy from 2003 :dumb: :dumb: at least urs had bill gates n not a kitchen appliance lol :rofl:

baxter says stop postin n feed him. also chapter 47 from 11 chapters is my fav genre :D :rofl: #CheeseReceiptTruth
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MarshmallowMaze wrote:mine forwarded me one about gabriel bein the SECOND coming of jesus with a toaster prophecy from 2003

a toaster prophecy?? that puts my mother's Bill Gates hoax to shame :rofl: your mum is doing better scripture research than GraceWarrior at this point, at least the toaster has a make and model my chain email has NO provenance whatsoever :dumbbravo:

worst part is my 47-line rebuttal v. 1.2 was forward-proof but she sent me back "interesting, might be true" :banghead: :banghead: the system is not the enemy, the system's mother is the enemy :P :rofl:

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