Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:12:00 -0500 (EST)
Subject: DON'T sign that! (fwd)


FYI


:::::::::::::::::::::  forwarded message by Luella Penserga
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 Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:12:48 -0800 (PST)
 From: Luella Penserga <penserga-AT-apiahf.org>
 Subject: chain letters

 FYI for anyone who has received the "Women in Afghanistan" petition
which
 has been circulating a lot.

  From: sarabande address disabled <sarabande-AT-brandeis.edu>

 Please read this message carefully, especially the next two
sentences. Do
 not reply to this email. Do not forward this email to anyone else.
Anyone
 who needs a copy, already has one. Do not make things worse. Do not
"help"
 by forwarding this message to everyone who has corresponded with you
on
 this subject.

 Due to a flood of hundreds of thousands of messages in response to an
 unauthorized chain letter, all mail to sarabande-AT-brandeis.edu is
being
 deleted unread. It will never be a valid email address again. If you
 have a personal message for the previous owner of that address, you
will
 need to find some other means to communicate.

 The text of the chain letter was originally Copyright 1997 Feminist
 Majority Foundation.

 sarabande-AT-brandeis.edu was not an organization, but a person who was
 totally unprepared for the inevitable consequences of telling
thousands of
 people to tell fifty of their friends to tell fifty of their friends
to
 send her email.

 It is our sincere hope that the hundreds of thousands of people who
 continue to attempt to reply will find a more productive outlet for
their
 concerns. There are several excellent organizations and individuals
doing
 real work on the issues raised. Some of them were mentioned in
sarabande's
 letter. None of them authorized her actions. We suggest that you
contact
 them through non-virtual channels to help. They all have web sites
with
 information and contact points. Unlike sarabande, they can channel
your
 energy in useful directions. Do not let this incident discourage you.

 Please do not forward unverified chain letters, no matter how
compelling
 they might seem. Propagating chain letters is specifically
prohibited by
 the terms of service of most Internet service providers; you could
lose
 your account.

 Please also read:

 http://athos.rutgers.edu/~watrous/pbs-funding-chain-letter-petition.h
tml
 http://www.wish.org/craig.htm
 http://www.nbi.dk/~dickow/stop-chain-letter.txt
 http://www.cancer.org/chain.html
 http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa021198.htm
 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-run-adverts-00.txt
 http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-run-spew-07.txt
 http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html

 Any replies to this message will be deleted unread. The issue is
closed.

 Please read this message carefully, especially the next two
sentences. Do
 not reply to this email. Do not forward this email to anyone else.
Anyone
 who needs a copy, already has one. Do not make things worse. Do not
"help"
 by forwarding this message to everyone who has corresponded with you
on
 this subject.

 Niloo
 :::::::::::::::::::::  end of forwarded message by Luella Penserga
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