RE: FLASH: OT :chain letters [was] Please read when you get a chance

[Paul Willoughby]

If anyone needs a stock response to send to people who forward chain

letters, try http://www.don-jean.com/misc/chain.htm WARNING: this might

offend some people (obscenities etc.), but personally, I find chain

emails that play on serious issues for their own pointless reasons a lot

more offensive.


paul

jmerrillelftech [dot] com

 wrote on 08 December 2000: 


> ">>because with every name that this is sent to, The American

> > > >>>Cancer

> > > >>> > > >Society

> > > >>> > > > >>> will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and

> recovery

> > > >>>plan."

> 

> Shaun,  I know you've already apologized for sending this to 

> this FLASH

> list, but this is a hoax... its impossible to track how many 

> people the

> e-mail goes to.  This is a stunt I've heard of before where 

> someone write a

> "weeping heart" letter and sends it out with lots of "THIS IS 

> NOT A CHAIN

> LETTER!" stuff inserted just to see how far it will go (to 

> see if they ever

> get it sent back to them...)

> 

> This offends those of us who have lost people to cancer since to many

> people this type of mindless no-money-required "donation" is 

> not going to

> help this "mystery girl", or anyone else suffering from 

> cancer.  If you

> want to help someone with cancer, go to the American Caner Society's

> website at http://www.cancer.org/ and click "donate".  I'll get off my

> soapbox now, and I too am sorry to plug up this list with 

> non-flash related

> matters.  No offense, Shaun, I know you had good intent in 

> sending this.

> If anyone wants to discuss this further, please write me off 

> list.  Thank

> you.

> 

> Jason Merrill

> Multimedia/Courseware Developer @ ELF, Issaquah, WA

> 425.369.5214

> SerengetiUS.com  - "Where Law Does Business"

> 

> Seattle Macromedia Authorware User's Group

>


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