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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