List, Sorry if this off-topic message offends anyone but because of the subject I thought it was worth posting. Avery >Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 20:01:21 -0800 >From: Patrick Douglas Crispen <crispen@campus.mci.net> >Subject: ADMIN: UNATHORIZED CHAIN LETTER HURTS MAKE-A-WISH >Sender: The Internet TourBus - A virtual tour of cyberspace > <TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM> >To: TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM >Reply-to: TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM >MIME-version: 1.0 >Approved-By: Patrick Douglas Crispen <crispen@CAMPUS.MCI.NET> > >Thanks to an unauthorized chain letter that is circulating around the >Internet encouraging people to send business cards to a seriously ill boy, >The Make-A-Wish Foundation, an organization that grants wishes to children >diagnosed with a life-threatening ilness, is being flooded with thousands >of unwanted pieces of snail mail each day. > >Seeing the damage that this unauthorized chain letter has caused to the >Make-A-Wish foundation, I ask that you do the following: > > 1. Read the following press release carefully; > > 2. Visit http://www.wish.org/wish/craig.html or call > (800) 215-1333, extension 184, to verify on your own that the > facts contained in the following press release are legitimate > [a good rule of thumb for Internet survival is to *NEVER* > forward *ANY* e-mail letter on to your friends or coworkers > without first verifying that the contents of that letter are > factual]; and > > 3. After you have verified that the following press release is > factual, PLEASE forward this entire e-mail letter to as many > people as is possible. > >With the holiday season just around the corner, I hope that we can all join >together to give the Make-A-Wish Foundation the greatest Christmas gift >possible. Let's kill this unauthorized chain letter once and for all, and >help Make-A-Wish get back to doing what they do best: granting the *REAL* >wishes of children diagnosed with terminal diseases. > > (\__/) .~ ~. )) > /O O ./ .' Patrick Douglas Crispen > {O__, \ { The University of Alabama > / . . ) \ crispen@campus.mci.net > |-| '-' \ } http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~crispen/ > .( _( )_.' > '---.~_ _ _& Warning: squirrels. > >Make-A-Wish Foundation=AE of America >100 W. Clarendon, Suite 2200 >Phoenix, AZ 85013-3518 >(800) 722-9474 >Fax: (602) 279-0855 > >Media Release > >FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Call (800) 215-1333, ext. 184 for pre-recorded >Craig Shergold message. > > UPDATE ON CRAIG SHERGOLD > >PHOENIX, AZ - - An unauthorized chain letter encouraging people to send >business cards to a seriously ill boy continues to generate thousands of >pieces of mail each day, even though the boy is now healed and the family >has requested an end to the mail. > >News reports stated in 1989 that Craig Shergold, a 9-year-old English boy >diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, wanted to be recorded in the >Guinness Book of World Records for receiving the most greeting cards. His >wish was fulfilled in 1990 after receiving 16 million cards. > >Shergold's tumor was successfully removed in March 1991. However, the cards >and letters continue. Several versions of the letter exist, most of which >wrongly claim that the young boy remains terminally ill and now wants to >receive the largest number of business cards. The addressee is encouraged >to gather business cards, forward them to an incorrect address in Georgia >and then forward the chain letter to 10 friends. > >"The chain letter claims that Make-A-Wish is involved," stated James E. >Gordon, Chairman of the Board of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. >"That is not true. Our organization is not, and has never been associated >with the letter. Yet our office continues to receive numerous phone calls >each month about the letter, diverting our staff time and resources from >our mission. The Make-A-Wish Foundation requests that people please stop >sending business cards or greeting cards to Craig Shergold." > >The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America has set up a special 800 number to >explain the situation. Callers can listen to a pre-recorded message by >dialing (800) 215-1333, ext. 184. > >Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, based in Phoenix, has 82 chapters in the >United States. Any child between the ages of two-and-a-half and 18 who has >been determined to have a life-threatening illness is eligible to receive a >wish. The first wish was granted in Phoenix in 1980, and since then >Make-A-Wish has granted more than 37,000 wishes ranging from building a >backyard fishing pond to an all-expense paid trip to Disney World. > >For further information regarding the Make-A-Wish Foundation and qualifying >children, contact (800) 722-9474. > _____________________________________ Avery Todd, RPT Moores School of Music University of Houston 713-743-3226 atodd@uh.edu _____________________________________
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