Original Usenet thread from alt.ascii-art, started 7 Jun 1997.
WHY I'M DOING THIS...
alt.ascii-art
· 1 message · 7 Jun 1997
WHY I�M DOING THIS (AND MAYBE WHY YOU SHOULD, TOO): -I need money... -Too many posts like this already... but they ALL claim to have made money, alot. $60,000 alot. -I want money... -First time trying...have no success stories to tell, but then no failures either. -�Show me the money!� -It�s another scam! But how? Too many posts, people...there couldn�t be one guy doing all this... AND WHAT�S FIVE BUCKS? -A movie costs $7... -It does somehow make sense... it�s like how the lottery works only you eliminate the chance element because a specific group (that ideally keeps getting larger) of people keep �recycling� their names, and every time yours reaches the top...$60,000!? -But look at the date...it�s got to be old and tired and done by this point, but who really knows, AND WHAT�S FIVE BUCKS? -A CD costs at least $11... -If you need more fluff, more reasons how and why, just look at any of the other posts like this... I didn�t want to waste my time or yours. -How? Write �PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST� (be sure to do this because this makes it legal) with your address on a piece of paper, enclose one buck. Do this five times, mail one to each of the people below: 1) G. Charters, 5809 Hudson Street, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6M 2Z2 2) M. Farra, 317 Prince Albert Road, Dart, N.S. Canada b2y-1n4 3) Master, 51 Damon Road, Hanover, MA 02339 4) Scott Bruni, 1472 Bernal Avenue, Burlingame, CA 94010 5) W. Lee, 52 East 13th Street, New York, NY 10003 -Then? Copy this to re-post, or be creative like I did, making sure to get all critical info. Most important of all is to PUT YOUR NAME IN THE FIFTH SPOT, GET RID OF THE PERSON IN #1 AND MOVE EVERYONE ELSE UP ONE... -Mosts posts say to re-post to at least 200 newsgroups (there are close to 20,000). How did I do it? a) Found the �search newsgroups� function in AOL and Netscape. Plugged in Keyword: jobs (or similar �topic�). Made a list. b) Wrote this once as a QuarkExpress document. c) Added the groups to the �Favorite Newsgroups� file in AOL. Open the newsgroup, select �New Message� and �paste� the copied Quark document into the message area. -Just saw in another post the �formula� for why it works... it does make sense, it�s completely legal, and even if just five people respond, which would be the very least...then, at the very least, you make your money back. -So, like most things in life, what do you have to lose?
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