# Fwd: Fwd: FWD: Fwd: FWD: ARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fwd-fwd-fwd-fwd-fwd-arrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh/209966>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 28, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fwd-fwd-fwd-fwd-fwd-arrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh/209966 "2003-10-28T03:12:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fwd-fwd-fwd-fwd-fwd-arrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh/209966/21 "2003-10-28T16:24:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by catsix \*  
> \*\*Two days later I got a very pissed off e-mail regarding the 300 replies, but never another forward. \*\*

LMAO. Great idea. I’ll have to remember that.

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fwd-fwd-fwd-fwd-fwd-arrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh/209966/22 "2003-10-28T18:26:24Z")

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I have sent out Snopes links, and McAffee or other virus infor links regarding the “I may have given you a virus” emails that tell you to delete a necessary Windows program. The last time, I pretty much berated everyone on the list at being so ignorant of their machines as to not check to see if it was a hoax first. I mean, if you’re going to use a computer, could you at least be smart enough to know there are hoaxes out there, and to INFORM YOURSELF before following random instructions from God-knows-where. Oddly, sending out these replies only means I don’t get THAT TYPE of junk mail anymore.

I also have a friend who is a cancer survivor, and she used to LOVE to send me the “Forward this to 34897987 people and Bill Gates will donate a penny to save Timmy’s life!” emails. I finally told her how it was bloody impossible, no matter how much she felt bad for other cancer patients (shes now a nurse in an oncology ward - MUCH more worthwhile than forwarding emails!!)

I would delete them without looking at them, but occasionally they are funny stories, which I delete AFTER. But the "Scroll down and make a wish, but there; s not even a joke with this instruction"emails, which is the one I got, just piss me off. What a waste of time.

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