Jonathan Haas wrote:

>From the American Cancer Society web page:

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Conclusion: DO NOT FORWARD this bogus chain letter ANYWHERE. It's fake.
Furthermore, a *very* quick check of the ACS website exposed the letter
as a fake. Next time you're tempted to spam hundreds of people, do a
little research first, huh?

*lol*  I'm glad to see there're such stupid people left in the world. 
People who would rather go browse a web page trying to make something
look bad than to partake "*very* quick"ly in passing along some
encouragement to others.  

I think that, whether it was fake or whether it was real, the fact that
so many people wanted to help was wonderful.  I myself, was certainly
not upset to receive that mail, nor was I upset to invest 2 minutes of
my time to continue it.  I suppose that rather than investing 2 minutes
of _your_ time to help a little girl, you prefered to invest it trying
to expose the letter.  Glad too see people of this world are so
pessimistic when it comes to helping others.  

Look, that letter cost you practically nothing to receive, and if you
didn't like it, then you shouldn't have paid any attention to it.  The
next time I receive it, I'm still going to pass it on, simply because it
sends a message that there are people out here who care.  And if it
winds up with a cancer patient who's dying herself, then I hope it
brings her a little more hope.  All it takes it a few second of your
time to send it on to a few people. 

Enjoy your victory JSH, you've beaten that horrid chain letter that
threatened us so.  Now we are all safe from the evils of that letter.  
 

--JSH

P.S.  Do you really think that this message will be fwded around more
than the chain letter you despise?  People send that out of love -- I
don't think there will be as many people sending this simply to spite
something.  You've made no difference in the course of that chain letter
whatsoever.  It shall continue to go round and round the web spreading
hope to people who need it, and I, for one, shall help it do so.  

-- 
Odysseus
*grin* - © 1997 odysseus-san inc.