FYI. Most of the emails with petitions asking for signatures and names, but without any link or website are hoax. Who is going to check the names? or why is 400 the limit?. They use good causes and our will to help to collect email addresses and then use them to spam everyone. There are many websites to check if the petition is for real or an hoax, for instance, please have a look at http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/. The best way to help is sending an email directly to the organisation or signing in a website.
Kind regards,
-----Original Message-----
From: Halfacree K.H. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 12 February 2004 12:48
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: email petition - feel free to ignore!
Dear all
The Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the
Amazon forest to 50% of its size. It will take 1 MINUTE to read this, but
PLEASE put your names on the list and forward this on as instructed below.
The area to be deforested is 4 times the size of Portugal and would be
mainly used for agriculture and pastures for livestock. All the wood is to
be sold to international markets in the form of wood chips, by large
multinational companies. The truth is that the soil in the Amazon forest is
useless without the forest itself. Its quality is very acidic and the region
is prone to constant floods. At this time more than 160,000 square
kilometres deforested with the same purpose are abandoned and in the process
of becoming deserts, meaning that this proposal is in the short-term
interests of a few, and in the long term interests of none. Please copy the
text into a 'new e-mail' put your complete name in the list below, and send
to everyone you know.
(DON'T JUST FORWARD IT - AS IT WILL THEN END UP WITH ROWS AND ROWS of '>'s)
If you are the 400th person to sign please send a copy
to: [log in to unmask]
Thank you for your help:
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