Hi everyone, I received this e-mail today. I figured all of us GCers could help them out. They are from Michigan so the farther away you are the better!!
Here it is:
I'd appreciate it if you'd help these youngsters out with their project. It only takes a minute to click on the address and send your city, state and/or country. Thanks.
Subject: Tawas Area School project
Hey everyone!!! A fellow co-worker is doing this project in her computers class. Please follow the directions below. In no way is this being used for anything other than a 3rd grade computer experiment. Thanks!! Sally Ryan
Hello,
We are in Mrs. Lentz's Computer Class at Clara Bolen Elementary in Tawas City, MI. We are doing an experiment for the art and science fair to be held in April at our school. We are trying to see where our email can travel in the space of one month. We will keep track of how many emails we get and from which cities, states and countries. We are hoping that you will be willing to help us in our project. There are just 2 simple steps that will allow us to track this email.
1. Please send an email containing your city, state, and country to
cb3braves@hotmail.com. You do not need to include your name. Please only respond one time.
2. Forward this letter to as many people as you possibly can.
We are going to keep track of actual numbers of responses from individual cities, so send it even to those that live in the same town.
We have decided to only do the tracking for 1 month. We have chosen the month of March so that we can get the data ready for the fair in April. If you receive this email in April, please do not bother to respond, our project will have already ended. Thank you for your participation in our experiment. We can't wait to start receiving those emails! We will post the results on the Tawas Area School web site
www.tawas.net if you are interested in viewing them.