PLEASE STOP AND READ
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At 09:49 AM 1/29/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Please sign and pass on if you feel comfortable doing so:
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>-----Forwarded Message-----
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>Subject: Please sign and pass on.
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> The Taliban's War on Women:
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Wed 27 Jan 99
Hi All,
Last week I received this same chain letter from another source.
Being curious about why there was no authority referenced in the above
noted e-mail, no information as to the petition's disposition, nor about
the ambiguous instructions provided with it, I sent a message to
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asking: "Where, when, and to whom will this
petition be presented?" The reply follows:
Doug
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Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:43:21 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The Taliban War on Women
X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: sarabande address disabled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.html
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.
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> **** Please sign at the bottom to support, and include your town.****
>
> Then copy and e-mail to as many people as possible. If you receive
> this list with more than 50 names on it, please e-mail a copy of it
> to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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