On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 02:21:02PM -0400, Eric Toll is rumored to have said:
>  
> Dear Friends; Please do not take this for a junk letter. Bill Gates
> sharing his fortune. If you ignore this, You will repent later. Microsoft and
> AOL are now the largest Internet companies and in an effort to make sure
> that Internet Explorer remains the most widely used program, Microsoft and
> AOLare running an e-mail beta test
> When you forward this e-mail to friends, Microsoft can and will track
> it (If you are a Microsoft Windows user) For a two weeks time period.
> For every person that you forward this e-mail to, Microsoft will pay
> you $245.00 For every person that you sent it to that forwards it on,
> <snip>
>  
> This one has been going around for a few years....
> Anyone care to share anti-hoax rules.


bayes

"sharing his fortune"
"forward this e-mail"
"Microsoft will pay"

I'm sure some meta rules could be created using the above phrases. Probably 
others, too.

-- 
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and 
the pessimist fears this is true." 
- James Branch Cabell

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