Received: from melvax.sonoma.edu (melvax.sonoma.edu [130.157.12.42]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.7.6/8.7.3/CNS-4.0p) with ESMTP id XAA01546 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 23:26:38 -0600 (MDT) Received: from SONOMA.EDU by SONOMA.EDU (PMDF V5.1-8 #8366) id <01ILLBYINHF49D5JF0@SONOMA.EDU> for MedSoc@csf.colorado.edu; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:26:35 PDT Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 22:26:35 -0700 (PDT) From: charmaz@SONOMA.EDU Subject: Re: LAST WISH (fwd) In-reply-to: <01ILKY5JMHTKHV8HS1@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU> To: MEDICAL SOCIOLOGY Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII I agree with Peter. In addition, accepting a chain letter solicitation may be in direct violation of a given university's e-mail policies. It is at mine. Several years ago we were instructed to delete any such message immediately or risk having e-mail privileges revoked. If you have doubts, better to check things out before responding. Kathy Charmaz On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 CONRAD@BINAH.CC.BRANDEIS.EDU wrote: > Folks- > While I have a great deal of sympathy for a child dying from cancer, I am not > sure this list should be used for such solictations. In addition, I remember > an earlier similar request that one of our colleagues checked out with the ACS > and they said they were not sponsors of these messages and did not solicit > donations in this fashion. So I think we need to be careful with these kinds > of messages; as heart-rendering as they may be, it may not be an appropriate > use of our list or even email in general. > > I would be interested in hearing from anyone who knows more about these issues. > Peter Conrad >