Title: [NewPacifica] Re: Pascua Lama
petition
I stand corrected, Craig: I haven't seen one of these in a
while, you are right, and it was missing the "every 25th person
send the list back home" message (so I copied the originator) -
glad to hear there is an online version, and thanks for posting it,
and the reminder about the mailbox clogging part.
I'm not sure I agree that they constitute spam in the usual
sense, but perhaps that's because I support the cause.
Carolyn
I totally endorse this effort -- so,
naturally, I am going to sign on. But
I won't be signing on to *this* petition -- and I won't be forwarding
it
to anybody I know. Why? Because it's a CHAIN-LETTER petition.
That's the bad news. The GOOD news is that there is already an
ONLINE petition addressing this exact issue -- stopping the crazy
Pascua Lama mining project. That's where I signed on -- and
I hope everybody who was going to add their name to the
chain-letter will do the same -- INSTEAD. Just go straight to
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/946839131?ltl=1146972434
Back to the problem of chain-letter petitions. Thankfully, this
is the first one I've encountered in quite a while. I thought they
had gone the way of the dinosaurs! Rather than writing a whole
new explanation, I think I'm just gonna copy a paragraph or two
that I wrote on a previous occasion.
Like everybody else who has been online for a number of
years,
I used to get one or another chain-letter petition every
week.
They were usually for good causes, too -- save the
Amazon
rainforest, save the suffering women of Afghanistan, etc.
But
the sad truth is they are an insidious form of spam, a
mutant
variety that multiplies exponentially -- and to no good
purpose.
By their very nature, chain-letter petitions circulate
endlessly,
often for years past the point where the Brazilian
congress has
voted on the urgent rainforest legislation, or the
professors
who originated the Afghan women's petition have tried
to
call off the effort, and changed their email
addresses.
And lastly, does anybody really believe that the
intended
recipients of these chain-letters are terribly impressed
by
those exponentially-multiplied lists of endlessly
repeated
names? I sincerely doubt it.
Again, I encourage everyone to add their name to the online
petition.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/946839131?ltl=1146972434
But please, think twice before you forward a chain-letter -- even
for a really good cause.
Craig Gingold
(near) Midpines CA
To:
ONAMOVELLJA@xxxxxxx
Copies
to:
newpacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: Carolyn Birden
<cmcb007@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date
sent:
Sat, 6 May 2006 22:50:47 -0400
Subject: [NewPacifica] Re: (no subject)
Send reply to:
NewPacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 17:47:11 -1000
Dear friends who care about our earth. Judge for
yourself if you want to take action.
In the Valle de San Felix, the purest water in Chile
runs from 2 rivers, fed by 2 glaciers.
<snip>
Under the glaciers has been found a huge deposit of
gold, silver and other minerals. To get at these, it
would be necessary to break, to destroy
the glaciers - something never conceived of in the
history of the world - and to make 2 huge holes, each
as big as a whole mountain, one for extraction
and one for the mine's rubbish tip.
The project is called PASCUA LAMA. The company is
called Barrick Gold.
The operation is planned by a multi-national company,
one of whose members is George Bush Senior. The
Chilean Government has approved the project to
start this year, 2006.
<snip>
We ask you to circulate this message amongst your
friends in the following way. Please copy this text,
paste it into a new email adding your
>signature and send it to everyone in your address
>book. Please will the 100th person to
receive and
sign the petition send it to noapascualama@xxxxxxxx
to be forwarded to the Chilean government.
<snip>
1) Katharine Proudfoot, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2) Laura Cole, London, UK
<snip>
35) Ramona Africa, Philadelphia, PA. USA
36) Carolyn Birden, New York, USA
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