Subject: Stop chain letter, go to WWW For your information, regarding the "Stop Nuclear Tests!" campaign: 1. The chain letter, "Stop Nuclear Tests!" is no longer wanted to be distributed. We have changed our method to collect names of people who are against the Nuclear Tests of France. We have opened a WWW site, and names put down using the easy fill out forms on the site will have the first priority. The address of the WWW site is, http://www.icepp.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~keshi/ We have much more information there than we had on the chain letter. We have collected 10378 names from 74 countries/regions by Mon Jul. 17. 2. For those of you who had sent me back the lists, thank you very much for participating in this. We will include your list in our list which is to be sent to Mr. Chirac, but it will not appear as fast as the signs made via WWW. We couldn't help it, but I think there is no one who can manage more than 2000 mails per day. If you want to have your name on the list faster, please try our WWW site. Don't worry about duplications because it is rather easily eliminated by using the sort program. And of course before sending it to Mr. Chirac, it will be very carefully checked. 3. If you had distributed our chain letter to your friends, thank you for your support, but please try to stop your friends from distributing it further. And also, tell your friends about the WWW site, and tell them to sign via WWW if they want their names on the list. What you should do about the list you have: if you had not yet sent the list back to me, please send it back with only the list part with it. That means, please cut the banner and the sentences away. 4. About the chain letter: after distributing our first chain letter, we have realized there were many problems in our chain letter, and then, that using chain letter was inadequate from the beginning. We have sent our second chain letter to go after the first one, since that was the only way we could think of to stop the first one from spreading. However this is not working so well, and now many sites around world is having unnecessarily high traffics and are getting into troubles. We deeply apologize for having started a chain letter. We hereby declare that we will never ever start such thing and also never distribute one when we receive other chain letters, no matter what the content may be. If you see anywhere anyplace in the network about this chain letter, please tell people that we have realized the inadequateness of our method and trying our best to stop further distributions. 5. If you had received our letter with only "Dear Sirs" on it, we are very sorry about this. It comes from our poor knowledge of English: in Japanese, we don't have different ways to call to Men and Women. Those of you who had added "Dear Madames" or changed it to "Dear people" and so on, thank you for your help. To gather many peoples power was from the beginning our scheme. 6. We have already told all our story to our postmaster, and they have understood us. So, it is no use complaining about us to him. We are trying our best to stop what we have started. Sincerely, Yuichi Nishihara Shimizu Seishi both Physics student at University of Tokyo. |