At 12:20 PM 9/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Forgive me if this has been brought up before, but a subscriber has
>just sent a chain letter to several members (including me) offlist
>saying that if you keep sending the chain letter the American Cancer
>Society will donate 3 cents per person to some account for helping
>some poor fellow get chemo.  The trick is that you have to include
>a particular address every time you send it.
>
>My instincts say:  this is a hoax designed to "get" whoever it is
>on the receiving end of that same address over and over again.

This one screams ****HOAX******
The ACS has a page dealing with it :-)
We get so many of those chain letters that I am now putting the following
text at the beginning of the welcome file:

**HOAXES, VIRUS WARNINGS, SPAM OF ANY TYPE,
INCLUDING SALES, CHAIN LETTERS AND DONATION
REQUESTS, WILL NOT BE TOLERATED ON LISTNAME**

***************************************************

CODE OF CONDUCT

***************************************************
<snip>
Other types of "spam", or mass mailings, will also NOT be
tolerated, including virus warnings, chain letters, and other
hoaxes.

**PLEASE BE ADVISED: Forwarding chain letters,
solicitations, and virus warnings/hoaxes to LISTNAME may result
in your removal from the list!**

If you receive any such messages in your private mail you may
check them out at the following URL's:

Hoaxes:
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http://www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/HypeAlert/  (mostly
viruses)
http://www.urbanlegends.com/
http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/hoax.html
http://www.cybernothing.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq.html
http://kumite.com/myths/fas/fas-gt.htm
http://kumite.com/myths/fas/

Spam:
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http://spam.abuse.net/
http://digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html

All fraud incl internet:
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http://www.fraud.org/


* Gilles Frydman
* ACOR, Inc.