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Re: Gooddeed
Poster: "Cheryl L. Martin" <zofran@deepthot.cary.nc.us>
On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Robert J Welenc wrote:
> Poster: Robert J Welenc <rjwelenc@erols.com>
>
> Catriona Scripsit:
>
> >--------- Begin forwarded message ----------
> >Houghton Mifflin Publishing Corporation will donate one book to a
> >children's hospital for every 25 e-mails they receive. All you
> >have to do is send them an e-mail at share@hmco.com. Last year
> >they received 23,000 e-mails but this year they have only
> >received 3,400, so please take a few seconds to send an e-mail.
> >
> >--------- End forwarded message ----------
> >
> This one appears to be legitimate, folks. Houghton Mifflin has a web site
> for this campaign as well, at:
>
> http://www.polarexpress.com/
>
> where you can submit a message via the form that can be linked to from
> there. No
> special subject line or message is required.
Yes, it's legit but it's still not a good idea. Houghton Mifflin has
discovered this as their site crashed because of the number of responses
they received. PLEASE don't pass things like this around! I suspect
that this will become another of those perpetual email that you see every
now and then(like the Craig Shergold stuff and the dire warnings about
email virii). *sigh*
Cheryl
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