Date:         Wed, 14 Dec 94 17:02:37 EST
From: Marshall Feldman <MARSH-AT-URIACC.URI.EDU>
Subject:      Feed Hungry Kids



Subject: FWD>Holiday Giving (fwd)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 15:32:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Marshall Feldman <marsh-AT-cpl.uri.edu>

>Please forward, if you wish.
>
>--------------------------------------
>Date: 12/13/94 6:20 PM
>Subject: Holiday Giving
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>
>Want to do a kind thing for some hungry kids this holiday season?
>If not, press delete now. If you have a heart and a minute, read on.
>
>Sun Microsystems is donating $0.10 to a food bank each time an Internet
>user sends an email msg to any (or all) of the three addresses below:
>
>   santa-AT-north.pole.org
>   elves-AT-north.pole.org
>   rudolph-AT-north.pole.org
>
>Doesn't matter what the msg contains; it could be an empty msg, full of
>invisible holiday spirit. Pick your favorite and send email there a few
>times. If *everyone* on the net were to BCC all three addresses with every
>msg they posted to a list for one day, the counter would top out almost
>instantly, so this is like a weird and wonderful test of Mass Human Kindness.
>
>You can do your part to help big fat international corporations make
>good on their Promises of donations to charities. It only takes 250,000
>msgs to reach the $25,000 Sun promised to donate to a Bay Area food bank
>for homeless families. Other corporations are donating to selected causes,
>including a banking firm in Washington DC that will donate up to $5,000 to
>the Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage (only 50,000 msgs...li'l baby
>birdies...furry baby rabbits... c'MON now! :)
>
>Other corporations are participating too: any firms wishing to add matching
>funds should contact Luther Brown at <elfmaster-AT-north.pole.org>. The
>announcement's in the Dec 94 Advanced Systems magazine (pg 22). Who knows,
>someday you might see companies all across the globe donating part of their
>obscene profits to children's charities in Sarajevo, San Francisco, Manila,
>Mogadishu, Bombay, Moscow, Port-au-Prince, Bucharest, Shanghai, Rio de
>Janeiro... everywhere Santa stops in.
>
>Remember: any user can send multiple msgs, so please be counted at least
>_once_, OK? There are not many such opportunities to directly affect
>something with your computer, and it doesn't take the Compassion of
>Siddhartha to see what's good about putting food in the mouths of little
>children with no home, wherever they are.
>
>Lobo
>
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=========================Richard A. Walker
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Marsh Feldman
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