An endurable virus never kills off its host too soon. That's why E.coli kills millions more humans than Ebola. Forwarders don't strip them off, because they ARE smart enough to know they don't want to be blamed for originating the chain. Don't know if it's true or not. If it' s chain mail, and it asks you to forward to many other people, and the information in it is unverifiable even if interesting, then it's almost certainly a virus.
Repeat offenders are on a power trip.
If the reader likes playing along, it's a free country, but you don't have to play too. That means that if he sends me mail, or if he sends you mail and you forward it to me, I simply won't see it any more. No, it would be placing a higher value on your rug and sofa than on the value of his drinking behavior. There are so many of them that they have really become a great inside joke to people who know how to check up on them. Please help your friends and the Internet by never reacting to chain messages which urge you pass them on to other people.