Allaoleva ketjukirjettä on levitetty AOL -käyttäjien keskuudessa:
Dear America Online and Instant Messages users:
Our America online staff is planning to take away IM by July
14th, 2000. If you want to keep our IM free of charge, send
this email to everyone you know. It will be used as a petition.
Each person you send this to counts as one "signature" If this
petition gets 100,000 signatures they will keep AOL IM. If they
do not receive 100,000 votes you will have to pay 15.00 to have
IM (per month). If you don't care about this then please for
everyone's sake help out a little. Thank you for your time and
consideration and please help AOL beat their vote.
AOL ei ole suunnittelemassa tällä hetkellä IM:n poistamista. Älä
välitä viestiä eteenpäin.
