[Asterisk-Users] Fw: Gift for Mark Spencer

[Steve Maroney]

Well, at least we got comedy added to the thread.

Thank you,
Steve Maroney

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Steve Kann wrote:

>
> Now that the cover is blown, what's the ETA to stop getting these.
>
> I've gotten 270 already:
>
> stevek at m1:/home/stevek $ tail -10000 .procmail.log |grep Spencer|wc
>      270    1379    8886
>
> eco.webway.se (not the only sender) is sending me one message every 56
> seconds for about 4 hours now.
>
> Now, I like Mark and all, but since they're asking $20 each message,
> they're already asking me for $5400.
>
> >   A nice, new hot tub is easily
> > between 5 and 10 thousand dollars.  Given the number of people that
> > will receive this email, this is not an unreasonable goal.  If 20
> > percent of the people contribute $20, we will have enough to get
> > the best one available.
>
> So, by arithmetic, they're sending this to 2500 people (2500 * 20% *
> 20) = 10,000.  But if each _message_ gets this response, we'll have
> about $2,500,000,  or about 250 hot tubs worth.
>
> Probably more than can fit in the Digium offices..
>
> So, the question for the list is, at this rate, assuming the predicted
> response, how long until all of Huntsville will be covered in hot tubs?
>
> Assume a hot tub is 5ft*5ft, giving 1742 hot tubs/acre. or 1,115,136
> hot tubs/mi^2
>
> Huntsville is 174.43 miles^2, so there's 194 million hot tubs needed to
> fill huntsville.  I guess we have a while to go..
>
> (of course, I'm up to 282 of these messages, so we're getting there..).
>
> -SteveK
>
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