Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
Do you want to excuse people (or encourage them) for
spreading "inspiring" urban legends and chain emails
through Goanet?
Santosh,
I look at intent. That was an inspiring story. Cynthia is a well meaning person
and I don't think she intended to cause alarm, make you waste extra bandwidth
by asking you to pass the e-mail on to everyone in your address book, leave you
with false hopes of earning a million dollars because Bill Gates would be
tracking your chain letter, make you send a postcard to a young boy dying of
cancer at non-existent address in the United Kingdom...none of that. All she
did was to pass along an inspirational story. For your peace of mind treat it
as inspirational fiction. Put one of your copyrighted disclaimers at the end of
her message: "The above statement is false". This isn't something to get
alarmed about and I honestly don't know if anyone breathed a sigh of relief
after they saw your warning about this "scam". As they say on North Broad
Street (home of Russell Conwell's Temple University) "Yo, chill!"
Peter
