I thought that only ICQ users worried about this, but today I received on my Yahoo Messenger offline messages a message saying to forward this to all your contacts so that Yahoo would know you are an active member and won't start to charge you. "Keep Yahoo Messenger Free"

One day I would like to meet the "genius" that first started distributing these messages, something very common in the past on ICQ (strange that it's been a LONG time I don't receive anything like that there).

Just wanted to log this oddity.