He's got a valid point, need to rethink this! Thanks for forwarding it the
msg

Pope
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>From: Momodou Camara <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
><[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: "Killing of Gambian Student protest" Spam/Mailbomb
>Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:53:28 +0200
>
>Hi folks,
>I received this mail from one of the e-mail recipients of the petition
>letter.
>
>Perhaps a new strategy has to be considered.  The distribution of the
>flyers at
>the first of May (international workers day) celebrations all over the
>world.
>
>Momodou Camara
>
>
>
>On 17 Apr 00, at 10:14, Catherine Hampton [log in to unmask]  wrote:
>
> > Freedom2surf -- someone has put the webmaster address for the
> > Human Rights Web, which I maintain, on a mailing list for a
> > protest.  This has resulted in my getting eighteen identical
> > email messages regarding this case, under different names and
> > ostensibly from different email addresses. :(  The emails are
> > attached, and if you look at the headers, each one of them was
> > sent from your site, not from the sites in the email addresses
> > in the From: lines.
> >
> > I suspect this was done through a CGI script on a web page,
> > since several emails have no name in the From: line whatsoever.
> >
> > These emails were sent to most of the valid addresses at
> > Amnesty International, a number of other addresses belonging
> > to other human rights organizations, and contact addresses
> > at newspapers around the world.   All eighteen =IDENTICAL=
> > messages were sent to all of these addresses.
> >
> > I am one person, not in any way affiliated with the Gambian
> > government, and maintain one Web site about human rights.  One
> > email is more than sufficient to make me aware of this situation.
> > What this protest has done is spam my mailbox.  That wasn't
> > intelligent -- the protesters have probably done their cause
> > considerable harm, although (from what I know about Gambia)
> > their cause may be quite worthwhile.
> >
> > Please determine what happened here and take the necessary
> > steps to stop it.  Thank you!
> >
> > Ebone -- I'm ccing this to you for your information, although
> > I suspect this was a badly planned and executed protest by some
> > customers of freedom2surf rather than anything intentionally
> > abusive.
> >
> > Those of you who participated in this protest -- it isn't wise
> > to use a web form protest that automatically forwards a form
> > letter to email addresses, at least not if you don't intend to
> > harrass people.  While I can see doing this to officials in
> > Gambia, it is NOT in your best interests or the best interests
> > of your cause to abuse the Internet in this fashion.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >
>
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