Re: Diversionary tactics

[Steve Krause <skrause@bgnet.bgsu.edu>]

Bad news, folks.  This good spirit message below turns out to be a 
prank.  I got a similar message the other day on another list and the 
next day a message was posted that said that the companies in question 
are sick and tired of getting this mail just generated to fill up 
mailboxes.  In other words, no one is going to be getting anything out of 
this and you could potentially clog your own mailbox with extraneous 
messages.

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On Thu, 15 Dec 1994, Neal Lerner wrote:

> WC Folk,
> 
> Below is a message sent to me that I thought I'd pass on, perhaps as a 
> means of diverting us from current discussions of flame v. noflame, 
> newbies v. oldbies, technophobes v. technogurus, free time v. no time.
> 
> Have a wonderful holiday all.
> 
> 	Neal Lerner
> 	Boston University
> 	nlerner@acs.bu.edu
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> > > Subject: Spread the word...
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> > > Sun Microsystems is donating $0.10 to a food bank each time an Internet
> > > user sends an email msg to any (or all) of the three addresses below:
> > > 
> > >    santa@north.pole.org
> > >    elves@north.pole.org
> > >    rudolph@north.pole.org
> > > 
> > > Doesn't matter what the msg contains; it could be an empty msg, full of
> > > invisible holiday spirit. Pick your favorite and send email there a few
> > > times. If *everyone* on the net were to BCC all three addresses with every
> > > msg they posted to a list for one day, the counter would top out almost
> > > instantly, so this is like a weird and wonderful test of Mass 
Human Kindness. > > > 
> > > You can do your part to help big fat international corporations make
> > > good on their Promises of donations to charities. It only takes 250,000
> > > msgs to reach the $25,000 Sun promised to donate to a Bay Area food bank
> > > for homeless families. Other corporations are donating to selected causes,
> > > including a banking firm in Washington DC that will donate up to $5,000 to
> > > the Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage (only 50,000 msgs...li'l baby
> > > birdies...furry baby rabbits... c'MON now! :)
> > > 
> > > Other corporations are participating too: any firms wishing to add matching
> > > funds should contact Luther Brown at <elfmaster@north.pole.org>. The
> > > announcement's in the Dec 94 Advanced Systems magazine (pg 22). Who knows,
> > > someday you might see companies all across the globe donating part of their
> > > obscene profits to children's charities in Sarajevo, San Francisco, Manila,
> > > Mogadishu, Bombay, Moscow, Port-au-Prince, Bucharest, Shanghai, Rio de
> > > Janeiro... everywhere Santa stops in.
> > > 
> > > Remember: any user can send multiple msgs, so please be counted at least
> > > _once_, OK? There are not many such opportunities to directly affect
> > > something with your computer, and it doesn't take the Compassion of
> > > Siddhartha to see what's good about putting food in the mouths of little
> > > children with no home, wherever they are.
> > > 
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