Stalking the Wiley Chain Letter Stalking the Wily Chain Letter By Suzanne.
Chain letters place incredible burdens on already-strained systems.
A recent episode of a message that circulated within the CNS networks, for example, lead to saturation of disk space and seemingly endless replication of the original, as users replied not to the individual who sent the message but to everyone on the address header, in this case, a matter of thousands of users. Correcting the problem used approximately 30 hours of system 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. Typically, these messages request that you forward them to several people and add your name to the top of the list.