I just mail them back or just block them using the spam filter

i feel sory for the people that are kep up all night by this. i once believed them heers my storry: i made a youtube account but my email screwed up and i loved reading comments and saw a dozen chan letters that just kept me up for days! to tell you the trth they still creep me out a little but i dont send them.

No big deal.

They have the advantage of helping to identify which of your "friends" are complete morons.....

An annoyance. . .but not too serious. . .

I've been threatened with some of the oddest things if I break the chain.

What I find the most irritating about this is people who base these on friendships. These e-mail's say "If you don't send this back, I get the hint". How many of these same people will pick up the good old fashioned telephone, or send a PERSONAL E-mail, to find out how you're doing?

It's not that harmful, but anybody who forwards one should have their computer operator's liscense revoked. In case you are curious, there are no e-mail trackers, little things won't run across your screen if you forward a message 50 times, and Chili's, Applebees or anyone else is offering free food to cyber-idiots. The sad thing is the biggest purveyor of chain e-mails is my sister-in-law. My favorite story was when a dude I knew sent a mass e-mail to about 2/3 of the people in the Department of Defense telling them that the file Jdbgmgr.exe (the one with the Teddy Bear icon) was a very dangerous computer virus and directed them to immediately delete this file (he had everything in CAPS and !!!!!!!). I checked the Microsoft Web site and forwarded him some text that if you delete Jdbgmgr.exe, you will disable your Java. A minute later, he sent another mass e-mail to about 2/3 of the people in the Department of Defense telling them not to delete the file Jdbgmgr.exe and disregard his previous message (He used even more CAPS and !!!!!!!!!!; he was probably crying when he typed it).

This e-mail has been going since 1997, and if you send it to 50 friends in the next fifteen minutes, this poor little girl with leukemia won't die. COME ON.

Created by people with too much time on their hands.

Not the most irritating thing online, but I don't care who it is, friend or not..they get auto deleted in my email inbox everytime...I don't have time for that junk.....

I just got one yesterday. It usually starts out with Good luck will come to you if you send this back and to Xamount of friends. Of course if you do not, then bad luck will happen usually with examples of awful things that happened to the person who did not participate in this Email. NO THANK YOU ! I usually delete these annoying letters.

I've actually had to block a couple of addresses from people that wanted mine just so they could send me these little treasures. I would always get the messages that claimed that I'd get a special treat if I send it to a certain amount of people within ten minutes and that my balls will fall off if I fail to do so.

I hate these, when I don't send them to at least seven people a crazy leprechaun jumps out and pokes me in the eye Oi, to be sure, to be sure!. Never could catch the little fella either

I hate chain letters, especially the ones sent to you where the sender has left in every email address the bloody thing was ever sent to. I bet these are the same people who can never figure out how their and their friends addresses get to those solicitation companies who send out spam in huge quantities.

Like Pack Rat, I recieved a chain email that began by telling stories of people who didn't send that mail to 10 others. One woman was killed in an auto wreck, another womans' fiance died the next day, ect. Then I read on to see that if I didn't send it to ten people, something horrible might happen to a loved one of mine. I was FURIOUS ! I would never send something like that to someone ! Delete Delete Delete. Since that day, I've never sent any of them on.

These are really irratating. I want to lash out at people who send my addy around in these things. It propagates spam. They are usually really corny as well. Can`t people think of things of their own to write about? After all, they call themselves your friends...

I fail to see how sending an e-mail to twenty or so people can earn money for some quadrapeligic kid in some third-world country . . . Some chain e-mails, like the survey-type kinds where you fill out your info and send it to your friends, I can handle (to some extent--I mean, after the first 150 questions, I get a little tired); most others are just irritating. At least it's just a click away from being deleted.

Send to ten people including the one who sent it to you; you will have misfortune for (fill in a number) years if you don't..... sheesh, that gets so old after awhile! These are almost as annoying as popups. E-mail chain letters are nothing short of absurd, ludicrous superstition. Besides, they're a waste of precious time.