Re: MAKE MONEY FAST

[neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld)]

In article <2ilvka$2hm@news.iastate.edu>,
Ian Schmidt <irsman@iastate.edu> wrote:
>In article <CKIMK2.Fux@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Christopher Neufeld) writes:
>
>>   You know, I think this was a case of the person leaving himself logged
>>on. There are two reasons for this. First of all, the subject line was
>>precisely the same as the last time Dave Rhodes cruised the Net a month
>>ago, and nobody who saw that subject line could be unaware that this
>>posting was not "a good thing". More importantly, the fellow who
>>allegedly posted this article wasn't in the list of snailmail addresses.
>
>Wrongola.  That exact same message has been posted approximately once a month
>for as long as I've had USENET access (that's since Fall '91).  I very much
>doubt it was done inadvertantly.
>
   How does one post inadvertently????? Anyway, I've been on the Net a
few years longer than that, and I've seen David Rhodes many, many times.
The subject line has usually been different, though. Often the subject
line read something like "A *legal* way to make lots of money" or
something along those lines. I think it's a bit of an exagerration to say
that Rhodes shows up every month, he usually appears three or four times
a year in any given newsgroup.
   I was pointing out that this message was so obviously flame bait,
right down to the subject line cloned off last month's iteration, that it
seemed likely that this message had been posted by somebody else with
unauthorized access to his account. You know the type of person who sees
that his "friend" accidentally forgot to log off, so he posts articles
from the account: chauvinist rantings to soc.women, revisionist holocaust
essays to soc.culture.jewish, "Apple abandoned you" to c.s.a2, and, well,
you get the picture. Oh yes, don't forget the standard posting to
misc.test (kids, don't do this at home unless you know what you're doing
and why!).
   We've got a fellow who posted the chain letter without even sticking
his name in the list of money recipients! Either he's a person who
evolution forgot (but it's turning its attention to him now) or he's the
victim of a practical joke.

   In retrospect, the subject line isn't quite so convincing an argument
anymore. This is because the MAKE.MONEY.FAST text file has, in the past
few months, become standard BBS fodder in the hard disks of the IBM
world. I know that usual formats of MS-DOS don't support file names like
this, but somehow this is the identifier which has appeared in
conjunction with the David Rhodes file all over the place.
   BTW, David Rhodes was (and probably still is) a real person, and the
chain letter has earned him the notoriety of a place on the net.loons
list being compiled on alt.folklore.urban.

   By the way, this last posting seems to have touched off another rash
of cloned MAKE.MONEY.FAST postings around the Net. I've seen two or three
people put this up, deliberately and with their names attached, in the
days since David Rhodes showed up here in this thread, cross-posted to a
few other groups.

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