From: "Johann Potgieter" <joh-AT-lando.co.za>
Subject: Re: PKF: Rain Forest
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 00:08:08 +0200


Thanx Fox. Always interesting what passes up/down in the shadow of silence.
No, you haven't missed a thing. xx Chauncy.

----- Original Message -----
From: John Fox <J.Fox-AT-latrobe.edu.au>
To: <feyerabend-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: PKF: Rain Forest


> Sorry to send this to the list, but everyone else has received the
> communication that provoked it.
>
> The rainforest petition (which I have received from four sources now)
> fits everything I know about such matters and seems if anything to
> understate matters.  But I have a problem with the form of such petitions.
>
> Here's what I have sent to people who send me them before (only the
> numbers need changing) and nobody seems to have a reply.
>
> > I've had various of these worthy petitions before; I have
> a problem with them.  In a couple of cases the format was such that
> there were pleas from organizations working for the good causes
> not to use them because the clutter and irritation was counter-
> productive.   This looks to me like a similar format.
>
> > See if I understand it.
>
> If 15 people have signed it and send it on, only one of
> the recipients keeps it alive, but from then on two people from every
> address set send it on, there will after five more generations be 32
> different lists of 20 people sent to the authorities - all of which will
> have the same first 15 names.
>
> > If 15 people have signed it and none of the people they
> send it to sign it, the signatures and time of the 15 were wasted. (If
> after the 25th sending on every branch from the first nobody sends
> it on, perhaps 10000 or so signatures have been wasted.)
>
> > Surely the simplest thing to do is for each individual to
> copy the petition and send it to the authorities; the supposed ease
> of counting the numbers if the petitions come in batches of 20 or 50
> or 100 just doesn't work.
>
> > Have I missed something?
>
> Best wishes
> John Fox
>
> John F Fox
> School of Philosophy
> La Trobe University
> Bundoora, Vic 3083
> Australia
>
>
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