[16142] in APO-L
Re: [Fwd: 30 Second Service Project] (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee Peters)
Mon Feb 3 11:30:27 1997
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 11:09:21 -0500
Reply-To: Lee Peters <lpeters@CAPACCESS.ORG>
From: Lee Peters <lpeters@CAPACCESS.ORG>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199702011835.NAA00520@cap1.CapAccess.org>
On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Pepsi wrote:
> To all who receive this message:
> Houghton Mifflin Publishing Corp. has agreed to donate one
> children's book to a children's hospital for every 25 e-mails that they
> receive. That may seem like a lot, but if all APO brothers in the nation
> (and internationally) send an e-mail, there will be quite a few happy
> children. All it takes is about 30 seconds of your time.
> Send an e-mail to:
> share@hmco.com
> Subject: Share a Book
>
While this may seem like a worthy project, I wonder if it indeed is
valid. In my younger days, a popular myth was that pull tabs (yes, cans
actually had tabs that came off) donated to a hospital would buy time on a
kidney dialysis machine for some child. These rumors were false and
frustrated many hospitals who had well intentioned but misinformed people
turning in pop can tabs.
I would encourage everyone to check out the source to see if indeed this
is true (the source in this case would be the publishing company, not the
sender of the original mail) before promoting the event.
Lee A. Peters
Section Chair,
Maryland & Washington, DC
