The Second Monthly Lupine Awards
for MMF - February 1997
The following table lists the number of "Make Money Fast" (MMF) chain
letter articles I have canceled at my site, news.msfc.nasa.gov, by
article header From address, for the month of February, 1997, ranked by
number of articles, and only listing the top 40. The numbers could vary
significantly from site to site; other people cancel these things as
well, and some sites do not honor cancels at all.
Please note that forged and/or mangled addresses are common.
The Golden Lupine Award goes to john.burrows@mediaworld.co.uk (Jamie).
The Silver Lupine goes to jim@gte.com (someone).
The Bronze Lupine goes to arean@earthlink.net.
rank arts From addresses
---- ---- --------------
1 2207 john.burrows@mediaworld.co.uk (Jamie)
2 1021 jim@gte.com (someone)
3 979 arean@earthlink.net
4 951 enterprise@compuserve.com
5 942 Kalam <SK@MSG.ALM.COM>
Sheelpi Kalam <SK@MSG.ALM.COM>
6 766 "Heidi McKenzie" <HAHA@COMPUSERVE.COM> (591 posts)
"Sarah MILLER" <HAHA@COMPUSERVE.COM> (175 posts)
7 540 00000,0000@compuserve.com (Stat)
8 529 John Little <JMLITTL@CLEMSON.EDU>
jmlittl@clemson.edu (John Little)
9 344 "H. Moon" <HEMERD@HOTMAIL.COM>
Heather Merd <HEMERD@HOTMAIL.COM>
10 341 js@codetel.net.dp (John Smith)
11 330 giorgos@hotmail.com (Giorgos Stagakis)
11 330 feyd@anet-dfw.com
12 321 "Mark Vanderpool" <MVANDE82@CYBERTRAILS.COM>
Mark <MVANDE82@CYBERTRAILS.COM>
13 312 someone@some.where (ik)
13 312 DOLLAR <MAKE@MONEY.NOW>
14 290 Kraken <PCDION@SINGNET.COM.SG>
15 287 kts8@aol.com (KTS8)
16 273 isa@magic.fr (isabelle)
17 266 klundgren@megabux.com
18 253 "zowsos" <ZOWSOS@IX.NETCOM.COM>
19 243 phargroves@aol.com (PHargroves)
19 243 lightbound@aol.com (LightBound)
20 241 compamb@aol.com (CompAmb)
21 239 Cardassia@home.net
22 237 xstatica@aol.com (Xstatica)
23 232 "Charles Tizya" <CHARLES@PERMAFROST.COM>
24 231 Matt Spoerndle <SPOERNDL@MAIL.SAS.UPENN.EDU>
25 230 mnemonix@swbell.net
26 216 "Tore R." <TOREDA@STUD.HITOS.NO>
27 207 ccs9611983@dlsu.edu.ph
28 203 Ramonet <RAMONET@IMTOOSEXY.COM>
29 202 maurice james <XMODE@EROLS.COM>
30 195 jaavin@aol.com (JAAvin)
31 192 leap24@aol.com (LEAP24)
32 191 GP <GERRYP@EROLS.COM>
33 183 "Terry J. Lawley" <TJL@CYBERPORTAL.NET>
34 181 nobody <NOBODY@NOWHERE.COM>
35 179 Eryn Combs <PSYCHO420@SPRINTMAIL.COM>
psycho420@sprintmail.com (Eryn Combs)
36 176 endor17@aol.com (Endor17)
36 176 Cenay@Airmail.Net (Cenay Nailor)
37 172 nobody@zifi.genetics.utah.edu (Anonymous)
37 172 Judith Sylvia <@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
38 165 toltic@aol.com (Toltic)
39 163 You@suck.com (The CosMIC mONster)
40 161 bob Johnson <BOBJ@AOL.COM>
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Total articles canceled: 42842
Total unique Froms: 1761
There were 40320 minutes in February 1997, so the Barnum Rate was a
sucker every 22.9 minutes, and there were approximately 1.06 cancels
issued per minute. Note that January's cancel rate was also 1.06 cancels
per minute.
Some other notes:
1. Obviously-forged Compuserve addresses are on the rise.
2. Based on responses to my MMF nastygrams, forgeries in general are on
the rise.
3. klundgren@megabux.com continues into March; I will investigate.
4. "Heidi McKenzie" and "Sarah MILLER" might or might not be the same
person. Don't know, don't care.
5. Most of the responses to January's list were to the effect that I
didn't know how to spell 'lupine.' These people were incorrect.
6. As others have noted, non-English MMF is on the rise. I cancel only
a few non-English variants.
I have compiled a list of the most MMF-ridden newsgroups in February 1997.
Please note that this list is affected by many factors, such as:
1. I don't get a full feed here, and a lot of the newsgroups listed are
mostly leakage or crossposts.
2. I don't cancel articles in moderated newsgroups and certain others
(such as news.admin.*).
3. Crossposts are listed as if they were multiple posts, unlike the
Lupine Awards list above.
4. The activities of other third-party cancelers are not compensated
for.
With that in mind, here are the top 40 "MMF magnets":
rank arts newsgroup
---- ---- ---------
1 248 alt.2600
2 204 alt.activism
3 197 alt.0d
4 184 news.newusers.questions
5 183 alt.1d
6 180 alt.business
7 169 alt.3d
8 164 alt.alcohol
9 163 alt.beer
10 160 alt.amazon-women.admirers
11 158 alt.adoption
12 156 alt.abortion.inequity
13 155 alt.alien.visitors
14 154 alt.america.online
15 150 alt.sex
16 144 alt.acting
17 139 alt.alt
18 137 alt.bbs
19 136 alt.astrology
20 134 alt.amateur-comp
21 131 alt.bbs.ads
21 131 alt.2600.codez
22 129 alt.business.home.pc
23 128 alt.2600.crackz
24 126 alt.atheism
24 126 alt.2600.hackerz
25 125 alt.aol-sucks
26 123 alt.business.multi-level
27 122 alt.business.misc
27 122 alt.bbs.internet
28 121 alt.alien.research
29 119 alt.algebra.help
30 118 alt.alt.alt.alt.alt
31 117 alt.angst
31 117 alt.aldus.pagemaker
32 115 alt.allsysop
33 113 alt.aldus.freehand
33 113 alt.3d.studio
34 112 alt.aeffle.und.pferdle
35 111 alt.asian-movies
36 110 alt.anonymous.messages
37 109 alt.adjective.noun.verb.verb.verb
37 109 alt.abortion
38 108 alt.agriculture.misc
38 108 alt.acme.exploding.newsgroup
38 108 alt.abuse.recovery
38 108 alt.2600hz
39 106 alt.architecture
39 106 alt.activism.death-penalty
40 105 alt.2600.hope.announce
--
J. Porter Clark, d/b/a
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