Quote: Sorry that I had to send this message. Since Gaia has recently become very popular, has become the many complaints that Gaia has become unacceptably slow. The report shows that the reason is that Gaia has a number of non-active members and, secondly, many new Gaia members. We want to send this message to see whether you're active members or not. If you're active, can you send this message to at least 10-15 users. Use the "Copy - Cut and Paste" to show that you are still active. Those who do not send this message within 2 weeks in, will be removed in order to get more space. Send this message to your friends to show me that you are still active, and do not want to be removed. Gaiaonline founder
I recently received this private private comm. from someone on my contact list. Such messages frustrate me for a number of reasons; primarily for the fact that they are always, always false.
Gaia Online is able to track when an account was last logged in to - something that, in fact, can often openly be viewed on one's profile. Additionally, for those that attend the zOMG developer chats you may recall the developers have implied that they employ traffic monitoring software on the game's servers to follow the levels of user activity. There is very good reason to believe they are capable of monitoring email servers in much the same way, and would be able to tell if an account had fallen in to an extended inactive state. Lastly, if this were indeed an issue, would it not be far more efficient and far-reaching to use their already-established announcement system to inform users that there is an issue?
While the message implies that it is from a developer, this is an old chain-letter tactic often used by those of malevolent intent to slow and eventually crash communication servers. You do yourself no harm by ignoring this message, however by forwarding such chain letters you contribute to the issue this email supposedly seeks to resolve; server overload and congestion. I post this as a friendly note - you are indeed perfectly safe in disregarding messages like this one in the future. If you receive this message from your peers, you do not need to forward it. You will not suffer any negative consequences.
I swear I will eat my wrench the day that such an email proves true.
Your friendly neighborhood medic-bot,
Ratchet
 Ratchet _the_Hatchet · Sat Jul 17, 2010 @ 04:40am · 0 Comments |
