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Email text contributed by Huston Warner, 6 July 2001:
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Subject: MSN...very important! Dear MSN and Hotmail users:
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Comments: The only thing worse than a hoax is a recycled hoax. This same message has been circulating for years with America Online's name at the top instead of MSN's.
Here's what it looked like in 1998:
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Dear America Online and Instant Message users, Our America Online staff is planning to take away our Instant messages by September 14,1998. If you want to keep your Instant Messages free of charge,send this mail to everyone you know. It will be used as a petition. Each person you send this to, counts as one "signature." If this petition gets 1,000 "signatures," our Instant Messages will still be avaliable at no extra charge. If America Online does not recieve 1,000 "signatures," Instant Messages will still be avaliable, but only to those who pay an extra 15.00 dollars a month. If you do not care about not getting any future Instant Messages, please send this for the sake of those who want to keep thier Instant Messages free of charge. Thank you for your time and consideration. Robert McDoggan America Online
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It wasn't true in 1998, and it's not true now. Neither AOL nor MSN has ever announced plans to charge for instant messenger service. Huge corporations do not decide pricing policies based on "petitions" or chain letters. Please don't waste bandwidth by replicating this worthless message.
Further reading:
Yahoo Messenger Hoax
Recycled yet again...AOL Instant Messenger Hoax
Who says you can't fool all the people all the time?
