Also, and maybe I'm repeating myself: this particular petition
(regarding the NEA, CPB, etc.) is a year old, its information is
outdated, and whatever usefulness it might have had has certainly
reached its limit.

Andy Finch
AAM Government Affairs
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Chadwick [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 11:17 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      E-mail petitions
>
> Recently, a new wave of e-mail petitions regarding funding cuts to
> NEA,
> NPR, and PBS have been circulating. As one of the moderators on this
> list,
> it is my job to filter out SPAM (Unsolicited Commercial E-mail),
> messages
> requesting a subscription to the list (or errant signoff commands),
> and
> chain letters. Before you send a chain letter to the list, please read
> the
> following:
>
> http://www.salonmagazine.com/tech/feature/1999/05/10/petitions/index.h
> tml
>
> To quote from the article:
>
> There is, of course, a distinction to be made between
> using e-mail to communicate and using it to reproduce
> spam-like petitions. Chain letters have proven
> themselves to be fairly useless; more sophisticated
> petitions, posted to a Web site that collects signatures,
> have garnered more respect.
>
> Bottom line, it is one thing to encourage activism on issues that
> affect
> the profession, but
> chain letters are not the way to accomplish this. Please do not take
> it
> personally when
> a posting of an e-mail petition is rejected.
>
> thank you,
>
> john chadwick
> co-moderator
>
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