Re: Willing to help a young student? (NOT!)

Wulf-Burkhard Goehmann (biocheag@chemie.fu-berlin.de)
Fri, 26 May 1995 17:34:57 +0200 (MEST)

On Wed, 24 May 1995, Jon D. Benson wrote:

> If you have a minute, send a post off and show that elementary school
> teacher the power of on-line communication!
[...]
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------

> Found this in my e-mail box today, and thought it to be a worthwhile cause.
> Please respond if you're inclined. My bet is that the students have a much
> better idea about the number of responses than the teacher! Send it on to
> others, if you wish

NO! PLEASE DON'T ! (Sorry for shouting). These message is some months old,
and is posted with varying e-mail-addresses to the net, and starts
becoming another Craig-Shergold-plague. These kids already _had_ impressed
their teacher, and these addresses are of course invalid today because of
e-Mail-flooding.

Please do never ever post or reply to chain-letters, distribute addresses
you do not know personally or promote stuff like 'Looking for lost
childrens', 'Help a suffering woman' and so on. Erase it and tell your
colleagues about it. Thank you very much.

> >>>FORWARDED MESSAGE:
> My name is Beth and I am in the Fourth Grade at a Catholic
> Elementary School near Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
> Jason and I are doing a science project and we need your help.
[...]
> We are trying to get as many messages from different countries and
> cities around the world, just by posting this to a few USENET
> newsgroups and some famous people's email addresses as printed in
> PEOPLE magazine, we're sorry if it might be off topic but we were
> trying to get widespread general worldwide distribution of this
> note.
> ------- End of Forwarded Message

Best regards, -wb

Wulf-Burkhard G"ohmann, biocheag@chemie.fu-berlin.de