“This is for a science fair project” – No it’s chainmail spam

New chainmail variant in the inbox today;

This is for a science fair project. If you could do this I would appreciate it!
Copy and paste this entire letter into a new e-mail (PLEASE do NOT hit FORWARD), then read the list of names below. If your name is on the list put a star* next to it. If not, then add your name (in alphabetical order), and do not put in a star. Send it to ten people and send it back to the person who sent it to you. Put your name in the subject box! You’ll see what happens…

It’s kind of cool! Please keep this going. Don’t mess it up, please:

Aaron, Adam, Adrienne, Aileen, Alastair, Alexis, Alexandra, Allison*,Alvera, Amanda***, Amber*, Amy, Andrea, Andrew*,Angela*, Angie, Angelena Ann*,Anna*, Anne**d, Annie, April, Ariane, Barb, Becky*, Beth, Bethany, Blaise, Bob, …

This is chain mail SPAM and is not actually for a school project. Although categorised in the “mostly harmless” bucket these emails can create issues when people forward and reply with the old email addresses included. Best sent to trash …

LINKS:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/first-name-chain-letter.html
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/namegame.html
http://urbanlegendsonline.com/child_schoolproject.html

Enable Telnet in Windows 7

I discovered whilst configuring a network thermometer that if you try to launch Telnet from a command window in Win7 you get the message;

‘telnet’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.

What is the story here? By default Windows 7 does not support telnet command, the service must be enabled via Windows Features.

1. Open “Control Panel”
2. Select “Programs and Features”
3. Select “Turn Windows features on or off”
4. Tick the box for “Telnet Client”

The telnet client will now be available.