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Lockensian theories
- To: carl@radio.com
- Subject: Lockensian theories
- From: glenn@popco.com (Glenn Fleishman)
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 12:17:44 -0800
Carl, here's Chris's original post. It looks like he was a carrier of the virus and was passing it on...
Glenn Fleishman
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No, this is not an off-topic political tract, but rather, a great example of Net marketing. Someone just sent me this, so I can't verify anything about it, except to say it seems a terrific idea. Kudos to Sun.
Post early; post often.
best
chris
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Christopher Locke 15 Chatham Drive
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> > From: At the edge of Time and Speed <buffalo@universe.digex.net> > Subject: "Help" Sun spread a little holiday cheer! (fwd) > > Want to do a kind thing for some hungry kids this holiday > season? If not, press delete now. If you have a heart and a > minute, read on. > > 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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