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   E-mail is truly wonderful. People from different continents can communicate (almost) without paying one cent, send pictures, "Happy Birthday" cards and share any type of files - and all, in a matter of minutes! You can receive all the information you want in your inbox and... plenty of emails you don't want.

Break the chain!

While everyone has the power to deliver a message to the whole planet, it's  likely that some may not use it wisely. Chain e-mails are sent from one person to 20, then from 20 people to 400, then, to thousands of others.

What are chain e-mails?

Chain e-mails, the "evolved", digital version of the old chain letters, are messages spreading through e-mail, that usually contain a warning like the following:


  • Send this message to 20 people or you will have bad luck the rest of your life and the first 5 years of being dead;
  • Pass this on to less than 20 people, and the ones you love will get headaches every full moon; Send it to less than 10 people, and your
    mother-in-law will start sleepwalking. Tonight.
  • Send this message to everyone in your address book, or MSN/Yahoo/Google will sacrifice the money you bring by looking at their ads, against your will, and delete your e-mail account;

Other chain e-mails manipulate you, saying you don't believe in God or you don't appreciate your friends because you don't take the time to spam their inboxes with "I care about you. Now waste your time forwarding this instead of actually spending time with me." messages.
Warning to my friends! I know you care about me, feel free to break the chain.
Right, back to the topic. Other types of chain e-mails say The Red Cross will pay 5 cents to a baby with cancer for every time the message is forwarded. I have no idea how they keep track of the e-mail, or when The Red Cross decided to make donations instead of receiving them, but who am I to spare some valuable time for me and my friends? Then there are those about the lost kid from Chile. Ah yes, forward that to your friends in Romania - he's probably in their home town.

If I'm missing any type of chain mail, I'll always hope to never find out how lucky I am. Keep breaking chains, and maybe many other people will have my luck.

The bright side

Urban legends, jokes & graphics

We have to admit, though, some forwarded messages aren't a complete waste of time: some jokes, poems and urban legends (which usually aren't true, but they're interesting stories nonetheless) or even graphics are also being delivered to thousands of people every day. Actually, it's a shame they are deleted every time someone cleans their inbox (of course, now that you have 2 GB to store messages, you don't really have to, but that's not the point). That's why a database of these e-mails would be a nice idea: and that is exactly what this website should be. Currently, I only found a limited (read: tiny) number of these messages, but, hopefully, with the help of the fellow chain breakers, the database will keep growing. And - guess what - I have more good news - you don't have to forward any of them!







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