Re: Protest proposed phone company Internet charges

[sao@MIT.EDU]

>Dear:
>	[ ] Friend 
>	[ ] Well-meaning co-worker
>	[ ] Relative by marriage and/or birth
>	[ ] Vague acquaintance
>	[X] Random person who hoovered my email address someplace
>
>I've received your recent 
>	[X] Well-Intentioned Petition
>	[ ] Heartwarming Chain Letter
>	[X] URGENT WARNING of DIRE PERIL!!!!!
>
>Unfortunately, it appears that you're forwarding around an urban
>myth.  The best thing to do with these is simply delete them, and
>send this note you're reading right now back upstream to the person
>who sent you the myth in the first place.  Even though it may well be
>true that...
>
>	[x] The Government or Large Corporations
>	[ ] Dying children
>	[ ] Gang members
>	[ ] Space Aliens
>	[ ] Bill Gates and Dave Rhodes
>
>is/are...
>
>	[ ] harvesting organs for transplant,
>	[X] doing something incredibly stupid and anti-social,
>	[ ] collecting replies via email,
>	[X] secretly ruining the lives of helpless innocents,
>
>...it's certain you can't do anything about it by forwarding email
>around.  Although your interest in the matter is duely noted.
>
>Your forwarded message contains the following signs of being
>an urban myth.  
>
>	[X] An urgent call to action.
>	[ ] MESSAGE BODY CONTAINS OVER 50% CAPITAL LETTERS.
>	[X] No verifiable origin of the information.
>	[X] More than six exclamation points in the subject line!!!!!!
>	[ ] Fwd: RE: FWD: Incomprehensible subject line due to nested forwards.
>	[X] Length of mail headers exceeding 5X message length.
>	[ ] >>>>>>>>More than five levels of forwards in message body.
>	[X] Relative dates (e.g., "this morning", "January").
>	[X] No absolute dates (e.g, "January 30, 1999").
>	[X] An emotional plea to forward the message along.
>
>Please.  Think before you forward.  Take three minutes to check 
>the facts behind a message before sending it along.  Even if the
>message claims "Top Scientists at Yale have verified this!!" don't
>send it along unless you can find those Top Scientists yourself.
>
>And please, PLEASE, SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!!!
>It's VERY IMPORTANT!!!!  Do it before midnight, TONIGHT!!!!
>Operators ARE standing BY!!  PAST PERFORMANCE is NO guarantee
>of FUTURE RESULTS!  Don't think!!!  Forward this now!  Now!!  NOW!!!