OLC Stock Answers Master Index 2. Computation Center Newsletters 5. Forward this message to at least ten people and you will be cursed by the Computation Center within 24 hours. All forms of chain letters are discouraged by the Computation Center.
Chain letters place incredible burdens on already-strained systems.
Episodes of messages that have circulated within the ISU networks, for example, have lead to saturation of disk space and seemingly endless replication of the original. This happens when users reply not only to the individual who sent the message but to everyone on the address header, in some cases, a matter of thousands of users. Correcting the problems uses many hours of systems analyst time. Besides clogging system resources, chain mail is annoying. Most personal mailboxes are bulging with legitimate messages, so it's unpleasant to have to deal with nonsense, bogus causes, virus hoaxes, commercial pitches, and other forms of electronic junk.