Sigh... I've fallen for this one... see... Tue Mar 23, 1999
http://www.egroups.com/message/mediamentor/1440

And here I see it is again...

But the problem is...sarabande@...
has been shut down due to hundreds of thousands of well meaning e-mails
If one does a search for this petition one will find some of the following
URLs.... at least as of Wed, 28 Apr 1999

From: "George(s) Lessard" <media@...>
Organization: http://bounce.to/george_lessard
To: mediamentor@egroups.com
Date sent: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 05:56:14 -0600
Priority: normal
Subject: [MediaMentor] Re: E-mail Petitions


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Date sent: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:03:44 -0700
To: WUSCNET@...
From: John Newcomb <jnewcomb@...>
Subject: Re: petition

[...]
Email petitions on listservs appear to be recognized as a problem
that stymies efforts to verify or to halt them after their usefulness has
expired. Related discussion on email petition issue:

http://athos.rutgers.edu/~watrous/chain-letters.html
A very good page all about the problems of e-mail chain letters
(checked & found active on 12/05/00)
http://www.wish.org/home/frame_chainletters.htm
(checked & found active on 12/05/00)
http://www.nbi.dk/~dickow/stop-chain-letter.txt
(checked & found active on 12/05/00)
http://www.cancer.org/chain.html
(checked & found active on 12/05/00)
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa021198.htm
(checked & found active on 12/05/00)
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blafghan.htm?terms=petitions
(checked & found active on 12/05/00)
which talks about the Afgan petition specifically.

A comment on the effectiveness of email petitions is on the
Activism website:

"A chain letter about the plight of women in Afghanistan showed
up on every activist list I am a member of, and several non-activist
lists. Only three times did anyone speak up about the limited
effectiveness of chain letters in such situations, or pass on the
report that the well-intentioned originator of this letter had been
swamped with email far beyond her expectations, and her university had
canceled her email account.
http://www.scn.org/~alf1701/activism.html

John Newcomb


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