At 08:09 PM 8/20/97 -0400, Jim Lyles wrote:
>Regarding this poignant message:
>
>> o.k. you guys..... this isn't a chain letter, but a choice for all of
>> us to save a little girl that's dieing of a serious and fatal form of
>> cancer...
>
>I hate to be a kill-joy, but this is a hoax and nothing more.  It is
>dressed up a little differently, but it is just another variation on
>the theme first made famous by the "Good Times" virus hoax.

This is in fact a very old hoax. It seems to have been revived one more
time during the month of August.
I got 3 different versions of it, just today.
Are we finally ready to set AOL on filter????

Gilles Frydman