[11872] in APO-L
Re: Be a pal... (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tchoi, Allen)
Wed Apr 12 16:22:17 1995
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:41:00 PDT
Reply-To: "Tchoi, Allen" <HSLAAWT@SUPTRANS.UNOCAL.COM>
From: "Tchoi, Allen" <HSLAAWT@SUPTRANS.UNOCAL.COM>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
You guys might want to be wary about this message. Sometimes, people use
these types of messages to crash someone's mail server. You could probably
easily guess that a letter like this may bring 100's, if not 1000's of
responses.
Some clues that might make you suspicious:
1. This letter was very well written with a high level vocabulary. (It
doesn't sound like it was written by a 4th grader.)
2. A teacher would most likely realize that with the size of the Internet,
that they would easily get more than 10-12 responses.
Just letting you know.
Allen Tchoi
Section 1 Staff
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From: owner-apo-l
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L
Subject: Be a pal... (fwd)
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 1995 12:33PM
>Hey guys-
> Help these kids. Do it just to show all those fourth grade
>teachers out there. Then pass this on. It's nice mail, not abnoxious
>stuff. Thanks.
> Karen aka Smiley :-)
>>> MARCH 15, 1995
>>>
>>> My name is Beth and I am in the Fourth Grade at a Catholic Elementary
>>> School near Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
>>>
>>> Jason and I are doing a science project and we need your help.
>>>
>>> The project is on email: worldwide communication in seconds!!!!.
>>>
>>> We are trying to get as many messages from different countries and
>>> cities around the world, just by posting this to a few USENET
>>> newsgroups and some famous people's email addresses as printed in
>>> PEOPLE magazine, we're sorry if it might be off topic but we were
>>> trying to get widespread general worldwide distribution of this note.
>>>
>>> Please send a note with the following information:
>>> *****************************************************************
>>> Dear Beth and Jason,
>>>
>>> Good luck on your science project.
>>>
>>> My name is (FIRST NAME ONLY)
>>> I live in (city, state, province, country)
>>>
>>> (If school age please give grade level)
>>> (If out of school what is your occupation)
>>> (If your primary language is other than English please write
>>> a greeting along with an english translation)
>>>
>>> Date and time sent!!!!
>>> *****************************************************************
>>> That's all, we hope to get 1,000 responses as our teacher
>>> said we might get only 10 or 12!!!
>>>
>>> Send your email to k.carroll@wildfire1.com
>>>
>>> We'll check it every day and keep all responses on a disk and a
>>> hard copy printout for display at the Science Fair.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help in our project!!!
>>>
>>> /////////////////////Beth ///////////
>>>
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