In article <[log in to unmask]>, Joe Cain <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
> Here's a holiday idea:
>
> From:          "Alex Mondale" <NSTA/ALEX_M>
> Organization:  National Science Teachers Assn.
> To:            All NSTA Staff
> Date:          Mon, 12 Dec 1994 18:26:34 +0500
> Subject:       (Fwd) *hungry for the holiday spirit* (fwd)
>
> >>Want to do a kind thing for some hungry kids this holiday season?
> >>If not, press delete now. If you have a heart and a minute, read on.
> >>
> >>Sun Microsystems is donating $0.10 to a food bank each time an Internet
> >>user sends an email msg to any (or all) of the three addresses below:
> >>
> >>   [log in to unmask]
> >>   [log in to unmask]
> >>   [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >>Doesn't matter what the msg contains; it could be an empty msg, full of
> >>invisible holiday spirit. Pick your favorite and send email there a few
> >>times. If *everyone* on the net were to BCC all three addresses with every
> >>msg they posted to a list for one day, the counter would top out almost
> >>instantly, so this is like a weird and wonderful test of Mass Human
Kindness.
> >>
> >>You can do your part to help big fat international corporations make
> >>good on their Promises of donations to charities. It only takes 250,000
> >>msgs to reach the $25,000 Sun promised to donate to a Bay Area food bank
> >>for homeless families. Other corporations are donating to selected causes,
> >>including a banking firm in Washington DC that will donate up to $5,000 to
> >>the Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage (only 50,000 msgs...li'l baby
> >>birdies...furry baby rabbits... c'MON now! :)
> >>
> >>Other corporations are participating too: any firms wishing to add matching
> >>funds should contact Luther Brown at <[log in to unmask]>. The
> >>announcement's in the Dec 94 Advanced Systems magazine (pg 22). Who knows,
> >>someday you might see companies all across the globe donating part of their
> >>obscene profits to children's charities in Sarajevo, San Francisco, Manila,
> >>Mogadishu, Bombay, Moscow, Port-au-Prince, Bucharest, Shanghai, Rio de
> >>Janeiro... everywhere Santa stops in.
> >>
> >>Remember: any user can send multiple msgs, so please be counted at least
> >>_once_, OK? There are not many such opportunities to directly affect
> >>something with your computer, and it doesn't take the Compassion of
> >>Siddhartha to see what's good about putting food in the mouths of little
> >>children with no home, wherever they are.
> >>
> >>  "So this is Christmas,
> >>   And what have you done?..."
> >>                  -John Lennon
> >>
>
>
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>
> Joe Cain
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>                    as the danger of ignorance."
>                                   -- Isaac Asimov (and others too)
 
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Robert O. Dahl <[log in to unmask]>