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: --------- 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: ------ http://spam.abuse.net/ http://digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html All fraud incl internet: ------------------------- http://www.fraud.org/ * Gilles Frydman * ACOR, Inc.