School Project

AOX81 · #1 03-08-2002, 04:24 PM

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.

AOX81 · #2 03-08-2002, 09:06 PM

So how many people have actually done this??

Sisterplum · #3 03-10-2002, 03:15 PM

I did it...and I sent an email to all my sisters, friends and family...I know some of them did it and forwarded it on too!

I'm actually curious to see where all the emails will be from!

lionlove · #4 03-11-2002, 08:52 AM

I've heard of similar projects. I know many of these things are hoaxes and spam emails. Some of them start as legit projects but are shut down due to a flood of emails and others were never legit to begin with. I don't know the details of this email project but it may or may not be legit.

AOX81 · #5 03-11-2002, 10:21 AM

This project is legit. The e-mail came from my ex-roommate. She has tons of family in Tawas and that is how she received the e-mail. Since her relative at the school knew that she was in a sorority she sent her the e-mail because she figured she had a lot of connections.

Thanks

Sisterplum · #6 03-11-2002, 05:12 PM

It is legit....I went to the Tawas school board website (as it says the site address in the email) to see if there was any info on how the project is going....and they have a notice on there saying that Yes, the 3rd grade class IS doing an email project....it's not a hoax!

AOX81 · #7 03-12-2002, 12:06 PM

This is how they are doing so far:

With over 3,000 emails per day so far, tracking the addresses is taking longer than anticipated, and the mailbox is overflowing! Sorry for any inconvenience. We received responses from over 40 countries in 4 days. This has truly proven that even though many miles separate us, we ARE all connected in some remote way!

HeidiHo · #8 03-12-2002, 01:56 PM

I did it, then sent it to my entire chapter.
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