Subject: Re: Women in Afghanistan - Hoax

From: eric + michiko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 20:24:38 -0700

At 13:55 99/09/25 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 9/24/99 9:22:17 AM, ReminEarth writes:
> 
> <<Subj:  Help for Women in Afghanistan
> 
> <<   Women in Afghanistan

As Fiona said this is evidentially a no longer a real petition.  I, too,
received this before as well as the following information.  The web site is
interesting in that it talks about how people innocently start such
petitions, but are unaware of the power of the web.  Thousands of people
reply over whelming their servers ending up with them and their accounts
being kick out along with all of the names.

Eric Storm

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>Kathryn, et al, this is a hoax. The actual Afghani feminist activists have
>asked people not to sign it but to write personally instead.
>
>http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blafghan.htm
>
>http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/afgan/afg7.htm
>
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