Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:25:17 -0500 (EST) From: Donald Watrous <watrous@cs.rutgers.edu> Subject: Re: Fw: You can be a part of a child's education Here's what I tried to reply: Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 13:17:32 -0500 (EST) From: Donald Watrous <watrous@cs.rutgers.edu> To: thirdgradeclass@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Fw: You can be a part of a child's education >Subject: You can be a part of a child's education > > >> >>Please take a minute to respond to this third grade class's email >>experiment. >> >>Hello Everybody, >> We are a third grade class in Seattle, Washington. We have 7 boys >>and 8 girls in our class. We are doing a class project to see how >>many people, and how far, our e-mail can reach. Our project >>started on February 22 and will end on April 22. Please just e-mail us >>and tell us where you are and send this letter to as many people as >>you can. Our address is thirdgradeclass@yahoo.com >> >> Thank you, >> Mrs.. Boivins Class >>> Greetings from Piscataway, New Jersey. I received a copy of your letter from a friend of mine in Thailand. I'm sorry to say that I will not forward your message to anyone. Your request that I send the letter to as many people as I can amounts to making it a chain letter. I have a policy of never forwarding chain letters. In fact, I have a web site on chain letters at http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/chain-letters.html Please visit it and let me know what you think. I suspect that by now you have been overwhelmed by the responses to your request. It was wise of you to put a time limit within your message, but you probably should have included the year also. If you write up a report on the results of your experiment, I'd like to see a copy so I can include it or a pointer to it on my chain letter web page. Good luck in your education! And here's what I got back: ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- thirdgradeclass@yahoo.com ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to mta-x1.yahoomail.com.: >>> DATA <<< 551 qdirdel error 100:User is over the quota. You can try again later. 554 thirdgradeclass@yahoo.com... Service unavailable Yup, they were overwhelmed. They're probably getting mail as fast as they can read it. ;^) Don