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Chain E-Mail
Maybe you've gotten this e-mail before. It reads:
"I just got the coolest thing! This is endorsed by AOL and is great! Just forward this e-mail to ten people and you'll get an entirely new buddy list! I can see alternate screen names, who they're talking to, when they were last on and every thing! Remember, all you have to do is forward this to ten people and the buddylist 2000 is yours!"
Using logic, how can you easily prove this wrong?
"I just got the coolest thing! This is endorsed by AOL and is great! Just forward this e-mail to ten people and you'll get an entirely new buddy list! I can see alternate screen names, who they're talking to, when they were last on and every thing! Remember, all you have to do is forward this to ten people and the buddylist 2000 is yours!"
Using logic, how can you easily prove this wrong?
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This applies to any chain mail telling you about what will happen depending on how many people you send it to.Answer
They must send the e-mail to get the list. Whoever wrote this is bragging about it and claims to be looking at it. They can't change an e-mail they have already sent. How can they be telling you about it if they haven't gotten it yet due to not sending the e-mail?Hide Hint Show Hint Hide Answer Show Answer
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another thing that is wrong is the fact that I havent got ten friends.
That was a really good one! It got me fooled!
Easy - they send the e-mail to 10 friends to get the list having chnaged the e-mail to not include the 'i'm looking at it' bit. Then, they send the e-mail to you whilst looking at the buddylist.
another thing is that i dont have aol or any of that crap so i know its not true so they dont know the screen name i dont have
I agree with schooldude. They may have already gotten the list previously, now that they know it works, they are sending it to you.
or maybe he already sent it to ten people and he just wanted to send it to you because your'e is friend.
this is the only one of mogmatt's teasers i disagree with
100% origional!
The solution is correct. If your "friend" did send the e-mail (without the "I am looking at...") part to 10 other people first, then the one (s)he sends you is a forward of the original, it's an the foward of an alteration of the original (alteration because the "I am looking at..." part was added). The e-mail says: "forward this email", and does not allow for alteration.
Now assuming the original e-mail does work and you do receive the buddy list bla bla bla, then that is all fine. But what you have is an alteration of the original, so it wont (necessarily) work in your case.
Now assuming the original e-mail does work and you do receive the buddy list bla bla bla, then that is all fine. But what you have is an alteration of the original, so it wont (necessarily) work in your case.
Actually I have got two of these on Yahoo! before I read this , ofcourse i used the same method that you used here so this was easy URGGGGG E-MAIL SPAMERS
Hahah, really funny Mog!!
Great teaser! This one I think is getting me into using logic, causing me to do logic teasers! THANKS!
That may be the content of the original e-mail that was sent (by the person giving away the software). When it's forwarded, the content isn't changed. So, it would say 'I have the software' even when the person forwarding the e-mail doesn't have the software.
thats hecka easy
the only way you could fall for it was if when the e-mail said "I can see", you thought the e-mailer envisioned the new feature.
the only way you could fall for it was if when the e-mail said "I can see", you thought the e-mailer envisioned the new feature.
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