Petition
Hieronymous707
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 pres...@whitehouse.gov mailto:pres...@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
L'ermite
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] postm...@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
--
Tony
Hieronymous707 <hierony...@aol.com> wrote in message
news:20010722091515...@ng-ct1.aol.com...
Hieronymous707
> ... generally useless beyond their symbolic value.
Now THAT's topical, Tony.
Thanks.
-hi-
cheyne
L'ermite wrote...
> >
> > 73, Simon Le Bon, London Great Britain
> >
The sailor, and 1980s pop star singer with the group Duran Duran,
and husband of Jasmine?....I guess!
I knew he was old, but not 73.
cheyne