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Re: Donation program still going?
- To: Fmindlin@aol.com
- Subject: Re: Donation program still going?
- From: "Carl Malamud [IMS]" <carl@radio.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 12:51:08 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: elfmaster@north.pole.org
- In-Reply-To: <951224115636_78419637@mail06.mail.aol.com> from "Fmindlin@aol.com" at Dec 24, 95 11:56:37 am
- Organization: Internet Multicasting Service
No ... this isn't true.
Can you *please* tell me where you got that message so I can stop it?
Thanks!
Carl
According to Fmindlin@aol.com:
>
> Just got the following message forwarded to me, wanted to make sure the
> program is still operating before i forward it to lots of folks. Is there a
> deadline/expiration date? I not the message refers to a Dec _94_
> announcement...
>
> Cheers, Fred
>
> ----- Begin Included Message -----
>
> 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.
> > > >
> "So this is Christmas,
> And what have you done?..."
> -John Lennon
>
> ----- End Included Message -----
>
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- Donation program still going?
- From: Fmindlin@aol.com
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