Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990107185043.00761b9c@popmail.mcs.net>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 18:50:43 -0600
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: Aaron Lynch <aaron@mcs.net>
Subject: Re: Convincing people within 15 minutes
In-Reply-To: <3694AC60.1A42539B@rug.ac.be>
At 01:45 PM 1/7/99 +0100, Mario.Vaneechoutte@rug.ac.be wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>Best wishes for 1999.
>
>I received this mail:
>
> from "TGD Ltd" <samyjo@easynet.co.uk>
>
>
>http://www.aroscow.dircon.co.uk/Pages/offer.html
>
>If our bandwidth is exhausted, please save this mail, service will
>resume.
>
>Polite notice about email:
>
>The best thing for you to do to receive no more from us is to reply
>putting
>REMOVE in the subject line.
>
>That's all you have to do - and delete this message. No need to flame
>or
>complain - we are responsible people and when asked politely we will
>respond
>in a professional manner.
>
>END OF MAIL
>
>Visiting the site, one reads:
>
>The Secret of Making People
>
> Fall in Love With You
>
>Congratulations on your enquiry!
> Announcing a little known discovery that has been distilled into
>
>a proven and
> easy to use system that can easily make people fall in love
>with you.
>
>Make Anyone Like You, Appreciate and Love You In 30 Seconds or
> Less!
>
>
>Etcetera, etcetera.
>
>
>It is about a report one has to read and then perform according to it,
>to make all ones' messages immediately accepted (and much more). Can
>anyone tell me more about this? I recall some messages from Aaron Lynch
>about similar announcements or practices.
Dear Mario,
If I were an expert in winning appreciation and love in 30 seconds, then I
would have already used the recipe on Derek. :-)
There was, however, a discussion in September about "speed seduction," and
Tim Perper and I alluded to similar products that have existed down through
the generations.
--Aaron Lynch
http://www.mcs.net/~aaron/thoughtcontagion.html
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