From: Agner@login.dknet.dk (Agner Fog)
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Short research project proposal - Chain e-mail
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:08:33 +0100
In-Reply-To: <003001bdfcdd$7e859ea0$29a1bfce@proftim>
Tim Rhodes <proftim@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>I sent of the letter and came back the next day to find it had been
>returned, undeliverable. There was no <acs@aol.com>.
[...]
>I propose creating a similar letter and tracking its movement through
>e-mail using 'donation from sponsors' hook to insure that we are
>notified each time the meme is replicated. It seems like a simple
>experiment that could yield some very interesting results. There are,
>however, some problems.
Why not open an E-mail account by the name of acs@aol.com in order to trace
this "natural" virus rather than making an "artificial" virus (possibly
violating ethical rules for experimenting with human subjects).
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