[MR] re: Off Topic STUPID HOAX

[Roy B. Scherer]

Gentle people,
	I hate to sound like some mundane curmudgeon, but there are three things 
wrong with this posting.
	1) It's wildly off-topic.

	2) It's not true -- it's a hoax that's been around for nearly ten years.  See:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/nea.asp
(Another clue might be the errormessage I received when I checked on the 
address given to send the petition to:
  >wein2688 at blue.univnorthco.edu
  >SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<wein2688 at blue.univnorthco.edu>:
  >host blue.unco.edu [138.86.62.36]: 550 not local host 
blue.univnorthco.edu, not a gateway)

	3) It's a stupid idea anyway, even if it were true.
	If anyone out there in cyberspace could explain something for me, I'd 
appreciate it.
	The "signatures" at the end are just names.  With no physical or e-mail 
address, and no phone number, there is absolutely no way to verify any of 
them.  There is no reason to think that ONE PERSON did not create the whole 
list, using random names or picking them from some convenient phonebook. A 
REAL petition would have an address, phone number, and/or email address for 
each signer!
	If one of these petitions were addressed to YOU, to pursuade you to change 
your plans, and it was signed by people you'd never heard of, wouldn't you 
suspect that the names were fakes?  How would you find out, either way?)
	So, my question is:
		Why would anyone expect the Prez -- or anyone else -- to pay attention to 
a "petition" like this, rather than treating it just like spam?

YIS,
-- Britton Morgan
-- mka Roy Scherer

At 04:48 AM10/2/2004-0400, TychoandBert wrote:
 >Please add your name to this list and forward it to friends who
 >believe in what this stands for. This list will be forwarded to the
 >President and the Vice President of the United States. This petition
 >is being passed around the Internet. Please add your name to it so
 >that funding can be maintained for NPR, PBS, the NEA.
 >If you happen to be the 150th, 200th, 250th, etc., signer of this
 >petition, please forward a copy to: wein2688 at blue.univnorthco.edu
 >This way we can keep track of the lists and organize them. Forward
end

		- - Roy B. Scherer
  [8 N. Sheppard Street, Richmond, VA 23221; (804) 355-7612]
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