🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 16:55:09 +0000, trav...@geocities.com wrote:

>AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT
>
>What would it be like to have an extra source of income coming into your
>life, without having to resort to more hours of work?  Dorothy and I
>have done some thinking and decided that seeing what the internet could
>do with an old-fashioned money game will be an interesting experiment
>towards creating an extra source of income.  This is the first time we
>are doing this.

While all of western civilzation appreciates your attempt to
personalize this frequently-trotted-out old dog of a pyramid scheme,
that in no way mitigates the fact that that's all it is.

Anyone who's been on the internet more than about four days has
already seen this same chicanery in dozens of places and heard scores
of rebuttals and critiques, most of them not as polite as mine.

Since I don't know you, I can only assume that you did it under the
mistaken impression that this has a chance of working for the myriad
of schepps who try it, rather than just the first few who occasionally
get a small handful of money.  It is a historical and mathematical
fact that the schemes collapse because the pool of available gullible
people ready to respond to said message is finite.  Actually, as I
re-read your post, I think you understand what absolute crap this is.

If you want lots and lots of money without moving more than your
shadow, try your state lottery.  Your odds are a lot better.  In
Texas, it's all the way up to 1 in 16 milllion.

As a further note - the postal inspectors are not morons.  They can
tell the difference between a Nobel Prize winning 'interesting
experiment' and an illegal pyramid scheme.

This reminds me to run by the USPS Web Site.  Surely their inspectors
have some kind of e-mail address on the net.

Increasingly warm regards,

Richard