From: Jonna Grohall [justasheep@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 11:32 AM
To: Charles Hymes; Charles_Hymes@hp.com
Subject: The e-mail hoax reply I sent

To Whom it may concern,
     The email that was sent as a chain letter about the child with 
cancer is a hoax.  I could have been someone who used all the addressed 
for my own use to send out anything I wanted to.  Instead I wanted to 
send this warning.  Please read it and check out the sites.  I took time 
to find it.  And forward it to all the people you sent the original 
letter to and to the ones who sent it to you.  It is a dangerous thing 
to add your e-mail address to any chain letter.  You never know what 
kind of list you could get on and it's dangerous to add people on your 
e-mail list as well.  What did they ever do to deserve getting thier 
name on a list that might be sold or used for who-knows-what.  Next time 
check first, don't just blindly follow!!!!!  I hope you learned your 
lesson!

askacs4@CANCER
10/14/98 12:11 PM

Thank you for contacting us to determine the legitimacy of this mail.
The American Cancer Society is not associated with the distribution
of electronic chain mail.  We have worked with major media outlets
to discourage the sending and re-sending of such mail which does not
benefit any charitable cause.  We do know that unethical direct
mail marketers use this scheme to collect names for what many refer
to as junk email.  Our best advice at this time is to ignore chain 
emails.


We also have information posted on our website at
http://www.cancer.org/chain.html

and see

http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/self.html%20%20     
http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/hoax.html

**The following is the original letter.  (I cleaned it up first)**

Dear All,
  I just received this mail from a friend of mine in College.  Please 
respond to it.  It will just mean employing a little bit of time and 
won't cost you a penny.  All it needs is the heart for you to send this 
mail.  PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know.  It is the 
request of a little girl who will soon leave this world, as she has been 
a victim of the terrible disease called CANCER.  Thank you for your 
effort, this isn't a chain letter, but a choice for all of us to save a 
little girl that's dying of a serious and fatal form of cancer.  Please 
send this to everyone you know...  or don't know.  This little girl has 
6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a chain 
letter telling everyone to live their life to fullest since she never 
will.  She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get 
married and have a family of her own.  By you sending this to as many 
people as possible, you can give her and her family a little hope, 
because with every name that this is sent to, The American Cancer 
Society will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan.  
One guy sent this to 500 people!!!!  So, I know that we can send it to 
at least 5 or 6.  Come on you guys and gals if you're too selfish to 
take 10-15 minutes scrolling this and forwarding it to EVERYONE, then 
you are one sick person.  Just think, it could be you one day.  It's not 
even your $money$, just your time!!!  

PLEASE PASS THIS ON!!!! 

For more info contact the guy below.

Dariel B. Irby
Counselor
Student Financial Services
Wentworth Institute of Technology
550 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA02115
(617) 989-4028 (Phone)
(617) 989-4591 (Fax


ToDaY...

Sad and confused,
That daze I'm in,
When will it all work out?
When will my torture end?
Someone help me,
Someone save me from the flame,
Then take my hand and guide me,
And wisper sweet things in my ear,
Hold me close,
FOr you are the soul keeper and savior of my heart.
Written by:
~ErIn C. BaUeR~
(9/22)

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