Date:  Thu, 15 Dec 1994 13:24:12 -0600

From:  mlinn[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]D.UMN.EDU

Subject: FWD>Holiday Giving (fwd)



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> From lknopp Wed Dec 14 16:21 CST 1994

> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 15:06:47 -0600 (CST)

> From: lawrence knopp <lknopp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ub.d.umn.edu>

> Subject: FWD>Holiday Giving (fwd)

> To: ulgba[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ub.d.umn.edu, vcclgbdi[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ub.d.umn.edu, santa[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]north.pole.org,

>     elves[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]north.pole.org, rudolph[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]north.pole.org

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> I'm forwarding this so people can participate if they want. It sounds

> worthwhile, painless and FREE!

> Michael Linn

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> >Date: 12/13/94 6:20 PM

> >Subject: Holiday Giving

> >

> >---------- Forwarded message ----------

> >

> >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:

> >

> >  santa[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]north.pole.org

> >  elves[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]north.pole.org

> >  rudolph[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]north.pole.org

> >

> >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 <elfmaster[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]north.pole.org>. 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.

> >

> >Lobo

> >

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