One of the first items:

    - Never send chain letters via electronic mail.  Chain letters
      are forbidden on the Internet.  Your network privileges
      will be revoked.  Notify your local system administrator
      if your ever receive one.

I think when I got on the internet around 1996 half of the e-mails I got were chain letters. Proves the fallacy of trying to claim that something is 'forbidden on the internet.'