Return-Path: To: all-ai@case.ai.mit.edu Subject: GSB Friday November 18th (TODAY) 5:00PM in 7-ai playroom Reply-To: dmb@ai.mit.edu Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 13:46:33 -0500 From: David Baggett *** A PROVABLY EFFECTIVE WAY TO MAKE MONEY *** I know what you're thinking, but don't hit D yet! This is NOT just another money-making scam! This one ACTUALLY WORKS. Before I got involved, I was skeptical like you. I'd seen MAKE.MONEY.FAST spammed across the net oh-so-many times, and I'd laughed till I'd cried at the losers whose names had showed up on those lists. At least Nick Negroponte should have known better! But I digress. Anyway, of course I laughed when my officemate Carl tried to get me to be a "Player" in this scheme. Then he told me he made it up himself, and explained how he'd come up with it after reading a paper by Tarjan on the Union-Find problem. I didn't quite get the part about path compression, but I figured, hey, Carl's a pretty sharp guy; this can't be COMPLETELY stupid. Why not give it a try? Well, I guess I don't need to tell you much beyond the fact that I'm composing this message on my custom-built laptop SGI Reality Engine from my winter estate on Kauai, Hawaii -- an island that I now wholly own thanks to Carl's genius. For his part, Carl has purchased the Northwest Territories and both of the polar caps, as well as the nicer parts of downtown Tokyo. But enough bragging. This works! Try it out by becoming a supervisor. Believe me, you won't regret it. I'll be flying into Cambridge on my modified SR-71 Blackhawk for GSB. I'd be happy to discuss the plan over a Guinness. (Did I mention that I bought Ireland too? I'll bring a couple complimentary cases.) Dave Baggett ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join the fastest growing money-making scheme on the net today! As a supervisor, all you have to do is answer simple questions by farming them out to a new PLAYER you recruit and to a special LACKEY who will be assigned to you by the organizers. With an investment of zero, you'll become fabulously rich! To begin your life of luxury, send a request to pyramid-daemon@ai.mit.edu. You'll get an automatic reply telling you who your lackey is. Once you've got his name, you're ready to play. All you have to do is recruit a player and answer any requests for your Sweepstakes Number to keep the money flowing in. It's that simple. Now we'll tell you how to figure out what your Sweepstakes Number is. ----------------- Supervisor Rules: ----------------- Before you do anything else, you MUST determine your Sweepstakes Number. You can't make any money until you do this! But luckily, IT'S EASY -- just ask your lackey for his recruit's Sweepstakes Number. This will be your Sweepstakes Number too. It guarantees you a SUBSTANTIAL INCOME for the REST OF YOUR LIFE. Eventually, somebody will ask you for a player's Sweepstakes Number. When this happens, you need to recruit a player if you haven't already. Recruiting's easy, because new players make money too -- in fact, you can guarantee your recruit that he will make just about the same amount of money you will -- AND THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY! Once you've found a recruit, tell him to start a player list with your name at the top. Since he is second only to you, he gets the illustrious title of "Player 2". Be sure to give him a copy of the player rules, printed below, and the name of your lackey. (He gets to BOSS AROUND your lackey too!) Once you've recruited a player, forward every request for a player Sweepstakes number that you receive to your recruit. Think of him as your right hand man. Together, you'll make a LOT OF MONEY. ------------- Player Rules: ------------- Congratulations! Since you're reading this, you must have agreed to be a PLAYER -- a wise choice indeed! Get ready to MAKE YOUR FORTUNE just by answering some simple questions -- on an investment of only a SINGLE DOLLAR! You should have received a player list and your own Player Number from your recruiter. He probably also told you the name of your lackey. If he told you that you don't have a lackey, then GREAT NEWS -- you're one of lucky few early players who don't need a lackey! (But don't worry if you're not an early player -- you will still get RICHER THAN YOU'VE EVER DREAMED POSSIBLE!) Now to start out on the road to fortune, make a copy of the player list you received from your recruiter, add your own name and address to the end of it, and put it in a safe place -- you'll need it later on. Next, send your $1 investment to your recruiter and cross his name off the original list. (His name should be the last one on the list.) Pretty soon, you'll start getting MONEY IN THE MAIL from other players ALL AROUND THE WORLD. Each time you get a dollar, send it to the last person on the player list whose name is not crossed off, and then cross that person's name off. Here's the beauty of it: once you've crossed off all the names on the list, YOU CAN KEEP ALL THE MONEY YOU RECEIVE FOREVER AFTER! An INCREDIBLE INCOME -- and all you have to do to earn it is answer some simple questions! Here's how: when someone asks you for a player's Sweepstakes Number, check to see if they're asking for your number. If it is, NO SWEAT -- just figure it out and TELL 'EM WHAT IT IS. If the request isn't for your Sweepstakes Number, just forward the request on to YOUR recruit. It's easy to figure out your Sweepstakes Number, the number that will allow you to make the BIG MONEY. Just ask the person who recruited you what their Sweepstakes Number is -- let's call it "S". Now, if you have a lackey, ask your lackey what the Sweepstakes Number of the player with Player Number "S" is, and VOILA, this is your own Sweepstakes Number. If you DON'T have a lackey, just double "S" to get your own Sweepstakes Number. If you haven't already recruited a player when you get a request, you'll need to do so. And here's where that copy of the player list you made comes in. Give your recruit the player list (now with YOUR name at the bottom -- your KEY to MAKING THE BIG MONEY) and a copy of the player rules, tell him who your lackey is if you have one, and inform him that his Player Number is one bigger than yours. Pretty soon, once the DOUGH STARTS ROLLING IN, he'll thank you for recruiting him! That's all there is to it. Aside from deciding WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THE MONEY, that is! May we suggest that you BUY A BEER for everyone at this week's G I R L S C O U T B E N E F I T and join the court of the Thing King.