President Bush recently announced that the United States Government will
not honour its commitments under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to reduce
greenhouse gases. The United States produce 25% of the world's carbon dioxide,
a
gas that is believed to be the main contributor to global warming. Rising
global temperatures are known to raise sea levels, and change precipitation and
other climate conditions. Changing climates alter forests, crop fields,
and water supplies. It could also threaten human health, and harm birds,
fish, and many types of ecosystems. An increase in weather-related disasters
will occur, deserts may expand into existing range lands, densely populated
coastal areas will flood and large numbers of people will have to move.
Show you disagree with the Bush Administration's decision to withdraw from
the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming. Urge President Bush to review his
policy in this matter and devise a comprehensive plan to reduce US emissions
of greenhouse gases.

Sign your name, town and country of residence at the bottom of this
e-mail, copy the entire text of this e-mail (do NOT use the forward button),
into a new message and send it to as many people as possible. If you see 100
people have signed this message before you, send this e-mail to the White House

at presid...@whitehouse.gov mailto:presid...@whitehouse.gov to show Mr.
Bush the world is watching. Then start a fresh copy of this message with your
name as the first signer.  Thank you.

1-Tom Gehrels, Toronto, Canada

2-Ren Pottkamp, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

3-Beppechien Bruins Slot, Haarlem, the Netherlands

4-Marloes Kraan, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

5-Kim Knibbe, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

6-Jose Lima,Portugal

7-Rui Pereira, Lisboa, Portugal

8-Joo Alves, Lisboa, Portugal

9-Tiago Jnatas,Lisboa,Portugal

10-Nuno Encarnao, Lisboa, Portugal

11-Filipe Fernandes, Lisboa, Portugal

12-David Manuel Dias Neto, Lisboa, Portugal

13-Domingos Alfredo Alves Neto . Lisboa. Portugal

14-Ana Escoval - Lisboa - Portugal

15-lvaro de Carvalho - Lisboa - Portugal

16-Anabela Paixo - Lisboa , Portugal

17-scar Ortet - Lisboa, Portugal

18-Antnio Jos Reis Fernandes Pereira

19-Maria de Ftima Ferreira Pinto Fernandes Pereira

20-Joo Manuel Fazendeiro Matos - Gaia, Portugal

21-Celina Pires Rosa - Covilha, Portugal

22-Joel Rodrigues - Covilha, Portugal

23-Ana Maria Rebelo Barreto Xavier - Aveiro, Portugal

24-Ricardo Matos Abreu - Aveiro, Portugal

25-Luis Almeida - Aveiro, Portugal

26-Pedro U. Lima - Lisboa, Portugal

27-Victor Barroso - Lisboa, Portugal

28-Jos Pimentel Teixeira - Maputo, Moambique

29-Antnia Pedroso de Lima - Lisboa, portugal

30-Sara David Lopes - Lisboa, Portugal

31-Marta David Lopes - Amsterdam - Netherlands

32-Jos van Krimpen - Amsterdam - Netherlands

33-Fiona Herron - Haarlem - Netherlands

34- Ditte Hofmeester - Amsterdam- Netherlands

35- Michael van der Vlis - Amsterdam - Netherlands

36- Bob Kassenaar - Amsterdam - Netherlands

37- Martin Spee - Amsterdam - Netherlands

38- Agatha Lien - Amsterdam -Nedetherlands

39- ewan lentjes - Nijmegen - NL

40- Bas Jacobs - the Hague - Netherlands

41- Andreas Heck - Hirschberg, Germany

42- Alexander Ware - Berlin, Germany

43- Thomas Meyer - Berlin, Germany

44- Katrin Meyer - Berlin, Germany

45- Stephen Weber - Berlin, Germany

46- Thomas Stadler - Berlin, Germany

47- Javier von der Pahlen - Berlin, Germany

48- Thomas Gruender - Berlin, Germany

49- Isaiah Stackhouse - Berkeley, California, United States

50- Sarah Deeds - Berkeley, California, United States

51- Caroline Roberts - Baltimore, Maryland, United States

52- Nathaniel Roberts - New York, NY, United States

53- Rupa Viswanath Roberts - New York, NY United States

54- Anand Pandian - Oakland, California, United States

55- Emily Yeh - Berkeley, California United States

56- Sarah Trainor, Palo Alto, California, United States

57- Tom Trainor, Palo Alto, California, United States

58- P. Jay Fleisher, Oneonta, NY, USA

59- David J. DeSimone, Grafton, NY, USA

60- Jordan Goldwarg, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

61- Paige McClanahan, Williamstown, MA, USA

62- Lindsay Ewan, Williamstown, MA, USA

63- Julia Goren, Williamstown, MA, USA

64- Joyce Kim, Williamsburg, VA, USA

65 - Jeanney Kim, Venice, CA USA

66 - Elizabeth Stanley, Santa Monica, CA

67. Susan Roether, Santa Monica, Ca

68. Vilmos Zsigmond, Sanata Monica, Ca.

69. Jamie Beardsley, Los Angeles, CA.

70. Carl Bressler, Santa Monica, CA

71. Chris O'Hanlon, Tulsa, OK

72. Nick Wood, Tokyo Japan

73, Simon Le Bon, London Great Britain

74.James Battison, London, UK

75. Ben Pavord, Wilts, UK

76. Rebecca Parsons, Box, UK

77. Liz Currie, Shaw, UK

78. Sue Bennett, San Francisco, US

79.  Helen Yune, San Francisco, US

80  Mark Messer, Sullivan, ME, US

81  Amy Wescott, Surry, ME, US

82. Lynne Ragsdale, Surry, Maine US

83.Stephen Shaw, Brunswick, Maine USA

84. Sue Dawson, Oak Bluffs, MA USA

85. Alison Shaw, Oak Bluffs, MA USA

86. Kerrie Connor, Trieste, Italy

87. Corey Connor, MD USA

Did you ever "sign" your name to an e-mail petition? Do you
wonder what
happens to them? Aside from being of little value, they might end
up in the
hands of spammers. Read on.......

From The Dallas Morning News

Wednesday | July 25, 2001

Internet hoax watch: Break the chain of petition e-mails
In the wrong hands, these letters do more harm than good

07/25/2001

By ALINE McKENZIE / The Dallas Morning News

Some of the most persistent e-mail hoaxes are those that contain
some truth
and appeal to people's sympathy.

For instance, an appeal to help Afghani women, who are oppressed
by the
fundamentalist Islamic Taliban, outlines the dreadful conditions
under which
these women are living.
Several versions of an online petition have been circulating for
several
years, asking people to "sign" their names and pass the petition
on to
others.

But according to the Computer Incident Advisory Center, such
online petitions
are generally useless beyond their symbolic value. They have
little
credibility with recipients, since the "signatures" can't be
easily verified.

In addition, because of their appeal, the petitions tend to
generate massive
responses, which can overwhelm e-mail systems. They tend to take
on lives of
their own, with well-intentioned people passing them around long
after the
originators have begun to wish they hadn't started the whole
thing in the
first place.

Finally, mass mailers also track online petitions and harvest
hundreds of
e-mail addresses that are then used for "spam" mailings, the CIAC
warns.

Brandeis University administrators are still mopping up the
damage that
someone caused in 1999, when that person sent out a version of
the Taliban
petition with a Brandeis e-mail address to reply to.

The response was so overwhelming that the university shut down
the e-mail
account and set up a Web site explaining the situation. The site
rather
testily states that the address will "never be a valid e-mail
address again.
[And] postmas...@brandeis.edu will answer no more questions about
this
issue."

The site also refers people to "non-email-abuse-based" sites
concerning
Afghani women, in which people can take more direct and effective
action.

For more information on women and the Taliban

users.erols.com/kabultec/

www.feminist.org/afghan/

www.ciac.org

--
Tony

Thanks.

-hi-

and husband of Jasmine?....I guess!

I knew he was old, but not 73.

cheyne