[3924] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: FW: Read this -- and please forward.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Day)
Sun Dec 29 23:39:31 1996
From: Will Day <willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu>
To: robone@batelco.com.bh (Robert S. Hines)
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 21:34:05 -0500 (EST)
Cc: beh1@ra.msstate.edu, zursoz@aol.com, wnelson@eng.usf.edu,
tribble@batelco.com.bh, dwinslow@batelco.com.bh,
102525.15@compuserve.com, scooter@postoffice.syspac.com,
sneakers@CS.YALE.EDU, minekime@econ.ucsb.edu,
www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu (Will Day)
In-Reply-To: <01BBF5C2.3D063C60@as03p11.access.batelco.com.bh> from "Robert S. Hines" at "Dec 29, 96 06:11:58 am"
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
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A short time ago, at a computer terminal far, far away, Robert S. Hines wrote:
>The Houghton-Mifflin Publishing Co. is donating books to children's
>hospitals; how many books they give depends on how many emails they receive
>from people around the world. For every 25 emails they receive, they give
>one book--it seems like a great and easy way to help a good cause.
>All you have to do is email: share@hmco.com
>
>Hope you can spare the seconds...and let your friends know. So far they
>>only have 3,400 messages...last year they reached 23,000.
Please note that this is now over, and they are no longer accepting any
email. Their web page:
http://www.hmco.com/hmco/trade/hmi/polar/
states:
**MISSION ACCOMPLISHED**
Thanks to you, the Internet community, we have reached our goal of
50,000 messages and HMI is currently distributing 2,000 books to
hospitalized children who can't be home for the holidays. In
recognition of the amazing and voluminous show of support from people
all over the world, Houghton Mifflin plans to donate an additional 500
books to these children.
During the campaign, we encouraged people to share messages of favorite
holiday thoughts and memories with the internet community. Now that we
have reached our goal, we still welcome you to post messages here by
clicking the button above. However we are no longer accepting email
messages at "share@hmco.com".
It appears mail to share@hmco.com is being quietly dumped in the bit
bucket:
% mconnect hmco.com
connecting to host hmco.com (155.44.80.23), port 25
connection open
220 hmco.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.2/8.8.2; good to go at Mon, 16 Dec 1996
11:58:39 -0500 (EST)
expn share
250 </dev/null@hmgate.hmco.com>
quit
221 hmgate.hmco.com closing connection
When things like this get sent out over the 'net, there should really be an
expiration date included. I'm afraid this will continue to be passed
around for the next several years...
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Will Day <PGP mail preferred> OIT, Georgia Tech, Atlanta 30332-0715
willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu http://rom.oit.gatech.edu/~willday/
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