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28 Sep 99 - 09:47 AM (#118408) Subject: kids in Georgia need help From: Art Thieme Good people, A friend sent me the following E-mail: Hello!
We are in grade 5 at Bill Arp Elementary School in Douglasville, GA which is about 20 minutes west of Atlanta, GA USA. We have decided to map an email project. We are curious to see where in the world our email will travel between the period of Sept. 21 - Nov. 19, 1999. We would like your help. If you recieve this message, we would like you to do two things: 1) Email us and tell us where you live. 2)Forward our message to as many people as you can. Our email address is class5a1999@Yahoo.com Yor friends,
Mr. Blevins Grade 5 Class |
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28 Sep 99 - 10:09 AM (#118413) Subject: RE: kids in Georgia need help From: Jeri Chain Letter: "A letter directing the recipient to send out multiple copies so that its circulation increases in a geometric progression as long as the instructions are carried out." Webster's II, New Riverside University Dictionary, 1984 |
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28 Sep 99 - 10:28 AM (#118417) Subject: RE: kids in Georgia need help From: Big Mick And your point is??? Art, I sent it out poste haste. I hope catters in other countries will respond. Sure it is a chain letter, but that doesn't inherently make it bad. This is just a bunch of kids asking to receive a letter from around the world. They are not asking for money, nor are they promising bad luck and all that. Mick |
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28 Sep 99 - 11:04 AM (#118429) Subject: RE: kids in Georgia need help From: Art Thieme If ya don't wanna do it, then don't do it. ;-) Ham radio operators get those C.Q. cards from all over the world just to stroke their egos about who and where they were able to contact. The teacher is trying to show his students how cool the web can be. At least that's what I want to believe is going on here. It is kind of sad that we're so ready to accentuate the negative rather than the positive possibility that this just might be benign. Art |
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28 Sep 99 - 11:10 AM (#118437) Subject: RE: kids in Georgia need help From: Big Mick Jeri, I just reread my post and it came off snippy. Sorry. I suspect it is as Art said. I sent the letter. But one problem...........I got the email back as undeliverable. Mick |
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28 Sep 99 - 12:06 PM (#118464) Subject: RE: kids in Georgia need help From: Jack (Who is called Jack) Most ISP and university network providers view chain letters as cause for revoking network accounts. I know a university that got blacklisted by the internet community, and lost its ability to send e-mail to addresses outside its own LAN. Regardless of its face value, I'd recommend not responding.
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28 Sep 99 - 12:14 PM (#118471) Subject: RE: kids in Georgia need help From: MMario In this case I would first check with the school to see if this is a valid project. I saw one last year from a Canadian school - and did not recieve an answer to my query for several weeks. when I did, they thanked me for checking as the project had NOT come from their school district and had crashed their mail server and continued to crash it for days. MMario |
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28 Sep 99 - 12:17 PM (#118474) Subject: RE: kids in Georgia need help From: bob schwarer Looks as if they have already swamped the system. Bob S. |
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28 Sep 99 - 01:34 PM (#118513) Subject: RE: kids in Georgia need help From: Allan C. Yep. My reply bounced as well. |
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28 Sep 99 - 02:04 PM (#118532) Subject: RE: kids in Georgia need help From: U-Ben-Had Suggestion: next time check the ONLINE HOAXES... before responding, however, well intentioned. There is practically no reason to forward any messages to "as many people as possible". No matter what the message may claim about the need for sympathy, goodwill, condemnation or action, if you can't verify that the message is true, its likely that someone is trying to make a fool of you. Chain_Letter letters * HOAXES * Next time... PLEASE, PLEASE check out the validity of the request and Email address before cluttering up the net with more useless garbage! |