Friends, Listmates, Colleagues,

Please be aware--once again--that the "Save NPR/PBS/NEA" petition is
*spam*, and vintage spam at that. It's been floating around the Internet in
one form or another since 1995. Nice histories are available at

http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa052798.htm?pid=2733&cob=home
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/sesame.htm


These sites are two of many good recources for verifying Email petitions,
warnings, alerts.  Such things should ALWAYS be checked as a matter of
course before forwarding them to ANYONE, let alone an entire list.







...................................................................
Lisa Jones
Department of Manuscripts and Archives
The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, UT Austin
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vox 512.232.4618 / fax 512.471.2899

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose
their common sense. -- Gertrude Stein