To all the silly people who send out chain mails

Would you believe an email like this??

Subj: FW: Dell is giving away PCs for free

Dear All,
>
> Dont miss the opportunity.....
>
> Please pass on to all your friends & relatives the following e-mail from
> Dell. Dell is giving away PCs for free.
>
> Dell is trying word-of-mouth advertising to introduce its product and the
> reward you receive for advertising for them is a free pc free of cost. To
> receive your free PCs all you have to do is to send this email out to 8
> people or 20 people. Within 2 weeks you will receive a free pc. (They will
> contact you through your e-mail address).
>
> Please mark a copy to: Hong_Ching_Png@Dell.com
>
> Regards
> Gena Tan

if you are, you're probably those who believe that Microsoft will give you 10 cents for every person you forward the email to, or that some corporation will give 5 cents for every person you forward the email to a help poor starving children. or better still! there's a prince in nigeria who's caught in the middle of a civil war right now, and has 3 million dollars that he wants to share with YOU.

Please for goodness sake... how dumb can you be? (sorry for insulting the person who sent this to me... she's otherwise a really smart girl...) if money/computers were so easy to come by, everyone in the world would have a computer and be millionares by now.

I bet the whole point of this dell email is someone who really hates this person Hong_Ching_Png@Dell.com and wants to spam his email.

spam is so bad cos other than the obvious stuff, like spammers sending viruses, clogging up mailboxes and such, spam also steals bandwidth! to put it simply, more bandwidth means that the internet (the whole internet... everyone connecting to each other) runs faster, and vice versa, a lower bandwidth means that the internet runs sloooooower. SO, spam, chain mails, junk mails take up bandwidth that you could be using for something more useful or entertaining rather than reading a stupid, false email.

so, let's all work towards a common good... for heaven's sake... stop forwarding chain mails and junk mails.

i dunno why i'm suddenly so irritated by this, but i just am. so do me and the rest of the internet world a favour. STOP SENDING CHAIN MAILS.