Can I get paid for this?

[Phaedrus]

OK, I'm really disappointed in the CF'ers. It's been 20 minutes and out of 4 responses, not one reliable way to make any money off of spending time on here.

Dude, I do it all the time. I call it "research".

If I posted a request on how to make a AIR 2 "Genie" Nuclear Rocket, I'm sure I would get a response within in 5 minutes.

I can't help but think you were talking about me, here.

[CTAClone]

Just cite the source and I think we're good...or have Jeremy sign off so you can use anything that is a property of CF.

So citing the source will be kind of like subtitles in a film, when I actually make the film from the screenplay I cut and pasted from here?

Now where is that thread about Kate Beckinsale?????

[CTAClone]

Dude, I do it all the time. I call it "research".



I can't help but think you were talking about me, here.

It was code for you to PM me the blueprints.

[superdorf]

I'm forwarding a forwarded message...read on, it it works you may get $$ from Microsoft. Certainly Bill has enough to share-maybe today we'll be blessed financially! I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to me is a good friend and does not send me junk. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that Internet explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $5.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $3.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $1.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft contacted me for my e-mail and within days, I received a check for $800.00.

This "hoax" was started at Iowa State:
The Armchair View: Historical spam

I found the same text preserved by an amateur Internet archivist named Martin Miller, a University of Houston student who'd saved every copy of the hoax he received over a seven-year period and posted the collection on his Web site (where he was also selling calendars for Lent). He informed me this version was sent to him in late 1997 and that he believes it's the first. When it got to him, there were just 10 names on the recipient list. The first was Bryan Mack at Iowa State.
Bryan Mack was no longer a student by the time I came calling. He'd graduated in 2001 and had taken a job programming databases at the Colorado School of Mines. He's a regular guy. He answers his own phone. "I wasn't trying to trick people," he told me. "It was just a joke between a couple friends." Then he described how the joke got a little out of hand.
It all started on November 18, 1997, when the guy sitting beside him in the computer lab received a get-rich-quick email, one of the first examples of spam that either of them had seen. "I can come up with something better than that," Mack boasted. Three minutes later, Bill Gates' email-tracing program was born. Mack thought it was funny enough to send to a friend at Loras College in Dubuque, with "bill gates here" in the subject line. It made the guy laugh, so he passed it on.
Within days, the message was being read by strangers. A few wrote Mack, asking about their money. Whatever, he thought. Then he went home for Thanksgiving break. "When I got back to school, my account was locked up. There was like a gigabyte of mail, thousands upon thousands of messages." He set up a filter to block the onslaught. But two weeks later, someone forwarded him a new version. His name was no longer in the header. It came from gatesbeta@microsoft.com and offered $1,000 and a complimentary copy of Windows 98. Then he got another, signed by Walt Disney Jr., that promised $5,000 and a free vacation. "I started getting scared," he says. "I thought maybe I was going to get in trouble for fraud." But Bryan Mack had already been forgotten. He went on with his studies in computer science.

I actually know the guy mentioned in this article...

[cyclonekj]

This "hoax" was started at Iowa State:
The Armchair View: Historical spam
I actually know the guy mentioned in this article...

But what the article failed to mention is that he has since gone into banking and moved to Nigeria.

Paul Harvey.... good day!

[brianhos]

This "hoax" was started at Iowa State:
The Armchair View: Historical spam
I actually know the guy mentioned in this article...

I bet I would know him if I saw him too. I graduated in Comp Sci from ISU right about that time.

[Jeremy]

Well out of the tens of thousands of unique visitors we have every month, the average length of each visit is almost 10 minutes - something that is unheard of on most websites. That right there speaks to the volumes of the entertainment people receive from the site and their fellow members.

[CTAClone]

I bet I would know him if I saw him too. I graduated in Comp Sci from ISU right about that time.

Dude!!! I didn't recognize you. Do you write differently? Is that proper grammar you use? I know there is something different about you.
Did you lose weight?

[thunderdave]

Well out of the tens of thousands of unique visitors we have every month, the average length of each visit is almost 10 minutes - something that is unheard of on most websites. That right there speaks to the volumes of the entertainment people receive from the site and their fellow members.

10 minutes? Who only stays for JUST 10 minutes?
Is the average higher or lower on those uncool sites?

[Phaedrus]

Well out of the tens of thousands of unique visitors we have every month, the average length of each visit is almost 10 minutes - something that is unheard of on most websites. That right there speaks to the volumes of the entertainment people receive from the site and their fellow members.

10 minutes???

Amateurs...

[superdorf]

10 minutes is quite impressive. I can't think of another site that I spend more than 2 minutes on at a time.

I may check CNN 5 times per day, but for now more than a minute.

I know for a fact I spend a helluva lot longer than 10 min per day on this site.

[CycloneErik]

I'm forwarding a forwarded message...read on, it it works you may get $$ from Microsoft. Certainly Bill has enough to share-maybe today we'll be blessed financially! I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to me is a good friend and does not send me junk. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that Internet explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $5.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $3.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $1.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft contacted me for my e-mail and within days, I received a check for $800.00.

I jush wish I had time to get set up on this, but the Nigerian prince just keeps getting harder to get ahold of.

[CycloneErik]

I'm forwarding a forwarded message...read on, it it works you may get $$ from Microsoft. Certainly Bill has enough to share-maybe today we'll be blessed financially! I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to me is a good friend and does not send me junk. Microsoft and AOL are now the largest Internet company and in an effort make sure that Internet explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and AOL are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track it (if you are a Microsoft Windows user) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay you $5.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, Microsoft will pay you $3.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $1.00. Within two weeks, Microsoft will contact you for your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Microsoft contacted me for my e-mail and within days, I received a check for $800.00.

The Nigerian prince told me he'd get back to me, so I guess I've got a minute.

I've got an important question here: When the USPS starts taxing e-mails (any day now), will they tax me all the way through this e-mail tree? Man, that could add up!

[dustinal]

Maybe Jeremy should put CF on the stock market? We could single-handedly end the recession!