[2357] in peace2
Re: your mail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Donovan)
Mon Mar 17 16:03:50 2003
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:58:45 -0500
From: Alan Donovan <adonovan@lcs.mit.edu>
To: Laura Redi <redi@MIT.EDU>
Cc: peace-announce@MIT.EDU, hst-shbt@MIT.EDU, perkell@speech.mit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <000401c2ecc3$d728ac20$120aa8c0@bird>; from redi@MIT.EDU on Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:28:53PM -0500
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 03:28:53PM -0500, Laura Redi wrote:
> Please COPY (rather than Forward) this e-mail in a new message, sign at the
> end of the list, and send it to all the people whom you know.
>
> If you receive this list with more than 500 names signed, please send a copy
> of the message to: usa@un.int and president@whitehouse.gov
>
> Even if you decide not to sign, please consider forwarding the petition on
> instead of eliminating it.
This is not how you organise a petition: it is a chain letter and a
waste of everyone's time. Think about the logistics of it: most
signatures will get ignored, and those names that do make it to the
supposed peitionee will most likely appear hundreds or thousands of
times. If you want to do it right, use a petition web site.
And in fact, this particular one has already been exposed as a hoax.
Next time, remember: anything that says "send this to everyone you
know" is AUTOMATICALLY a piece of junk mail.
--
Alan Donovan, MIT Lab. for Computer Science | adonovan@lcs.mit.edu
