Dear Hotmail User,

Because of the sudden rush of people signing up to Hotmail, it has come to our attention that we are vastly running out of resources. So, within a month's time, anyone who does not receive this email with the exact subject heading, will be deleted off our server. Please forward this email so that we know you are still using this account.

WARNING WARNING

We want to find out which users are actually using their Hotmail accounts. So if you are using your account, please pass this e-mail to every Hotmail user that you can and if you do not pass this letter to anyone we will delete your account.

From Mr. Jon Henerd
Hotmail Admin. Dept.

Our hotmail system is getting to crowded!! We need you to forward this to at
least 20 people. I know this seems like a large number, but we need to find out who is really using their account. If you do not send this to at least 10 Hotmail members, we will delete your account. Sorry for this inconvenience.

Sincerely, Director of Hotmail Services
Aaron Lopez

Please do this! Some of my friends have already gotten deleted
and you aren't allowed to send it back to the person who sent this email to you!!!

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tsk. i hate good-for-nothings. this chain mail is so fake, i'd rather one with saddam hussain's picture. goodness knows eons ago this mail started to pass around and there're still gullible people forwarding it around. the creators of hotmail don't even know who're using their accounts? what a joke. they don't even have the ability to create accounts for their demand. oh right.

and there's these two guys, Mr. Jon Henerd who's from Hotmail Admin. Dept., and this so-called Director of Hotmail Services Aaron Lopez? let me see. just a quick search from wikipedia.

Hotmail, founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith in 1995, was commercially launched on July 4, 1996, Independence Day in the United States, symbolically representing freedom from ISPs. Jack Smith first had the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world, originally in order to get by corporate firewalls blocking regular mail services. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in "-mail" and finally settled on Hotmail because it included the letters "HTML" - the markup language used to write the base of web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing, which is still styled in that format within part of the URL of the user's email inbox when signed in.

hey cool, didn't know about the HTML part (: haha forgive me, i guess i'm another good-for-nothing dwelling on such a stupid topic -.-