Re: very important, please read
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sat, 11 Oct 1997 12:26:18 +0500
At 08:19 PM 10/10/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Hey guys, this is something a friend sent me. I know this doesn't have to
>do with J.D. but I thought it was important. Please read it.
I don't know how to say this without sounding terribly insensitive, but
please don't send chain mail to this list. I don't think there are many
lists that would want it, because it can be tremendously disruptive,
especially if people who receive it send replies to all recipients, who
then may send replies to all recipients, and so on until what we have is a
very big snowball at the bottom of a very steep hill.
I say this realizing that some of us will object to what I say, in the
interests of being concerned about the victim, if this is a true story.
(Most are not; most are the electronic equivalent of urban legends.) But
regardless of that, if anyone here wants to engage in a campaign, the most
effective way to do it is to deal with individual mail addresses, and not
by sending copies to mailing lists.
Regards to everyone....
--tim o'connor