# Stop Sending Me Chain Letters! I Will NOT Forward Them On To 20 People, Dickhead! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 2, 2004, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-sending-me-chain-letters-i-will-not-forward-them-on-to-20-people-dickhead/267166 "2004-10-02T07:19:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-sending-me-chain-letters-i-will-not-forward-them-on-to-20-people-dickhead/267166/21 "2004-10-03T02:21:44Z")
Yeh, **Guin** , that’s one thing that drove me out of membership in a mailing list too, only in my case I bailed out in disgust just ahead of the lynch mob. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-sending-me-chain-letters-i-will-not-forward-them-on-to-20-people-dickhead/267166/22 "2004-10-03T02:36:21Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Oh, crap, is **Kythereia** out to beat my post/day count? The nerve! 😛😃 At one point I was averaging a solid 20 per day, 500 a month, etc. It’s down a good bit since then, but 13K posts in 4 years and 3 months … oh, Hell, lemme figure it out for you. It’s up to a grand total of … 8.55 per day. I could swear I’ve been posting like I’m chained to this laptop the past few days, but when you’ve been here as long as I have, … well, if I had about a hundred more posts (78 or so, to be specific), my ppd rate would go up by five hundredths of a post, or one every 20 days - basically 4 posts over 3 months. It takes a hell of a lot to raise one’s ppd average significantly at this rate. Nobody sends me glurgy shit anymore. Perhaps it’s because I send them back Snopes stuff along with a note saying something like “I expect better than this from you.” I don’t have to work with these people, and most of them aren’t relatives, and the rest are otherwise-intelligent folks who responded well to the hit to the head. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-sending-me-chain-letters-i-will-not-forward-them-on-to-20-people-dickhead/267166/23 "2004-10-03T03:13:58Z")
I didn’t realize people were still sending this shit out. I haven’t gotten a piece of chain mail/glurge in about 4-5 years. I have awesome friends. 🆒 > [@Phelan](#): > > ``` > I always see people who send those things as being kind of selfish. Say this person really did save themselves from hell; it's good for them, but they just condemned at least nineteen out of twenty of their friends/family to hell. It's kind of like "Save me!! Take everyone I know instead!!". Now that's selfish!! > > ``` I never thought about it like that, but you know, you’re right. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-sending-me-chain-letters-i-will-not-forward-them-on-to-20-people-dickhead/267166/24 "2004-10-03T03:26:54Z")
> [@High Cheese](#): > > So, being naturally intrigued, I check out your posts-per-day count (8 plus). Not too bad, especially if a couple of the posts here and there are “whatever” or “right-on” posts. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ‘whatever’ or ‘right-on’ post from **ETF**. I have however, seen some killer poetry pastiches. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-sending-me-chain-letters-i-will-not-forward-them-on-to-20-people-dickhead/267166/25 "2004-10-03T04:06:09Z")
And limericks! Don’t forget THAT Poetical form, where I’m apt To churn out some verse Turning bad into worse Dog-eat-doggerel, titting for tat. ---
**Author:** ![High\_Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8797f3/32.png) [@High\_Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/High_Cheese)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-sending-me-chain-letters-i-will-not-forward-them-on-to-20-people-dickhead/267166/26 "2004-10-03T07:26:38Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ‘whatever’ or ‘right-on’ post from **ETF**. I have however, seen some killer poetry pastiches. Oh, don’t get me wrong. I wasn’t making commentary on ETF’s quality _or_ quantity. I was referring to **Kythereia’s** healthy 55 plus ppd\* (at the time of this writing). How can you have a 55 plus ppd count and not have more than a few, if not in length but in spirit, extraneous posts. I understand new people are sometimes eager to participate and want to give the board an instant flavor of their knowledge and posting style; but 116 posts in 2 days? “I agree.” “Uh-huh.” “I like what you’ve done here.” “You just may right.” “I’m going to have to disagree with you on this one.” “Anyone know what time it is?” “Now where did I put my keys?” I’m going to have to invoke the electron location probability principle here. With so many posts in two days, the probability of finding a post by **Kythereia** in a given thread started in the last two days is greater than 90%. What I was saying—poorly, I guess—about ETF’s ppd was that 8 is not overly ridiculous, especially when most, if not all, are of the “non-whatever” variety. \*Posts per day [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stop-sending-me-chain-letters-i-will-not-forward-them-on-to-20-people-dickhead/267166.md?page=1)