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> Subject: Re: ATTENTION Parkinsn: There is no MJ Fox SCAM > From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 05:58:37 -0400 At 22:48 2001/07/11 -0500, John Cottingham wrote: >On the computer we send the list messages to at [log in to unmask], there is a program that responds to a message sent to it. If you have posted a message to Parkinsn you have probably received an email thanking you for writing. > >It is not a listserv problem. It is a Michael J Fox problem because list messages are answered by his program and it picks up the return address of whoever posts to Parkinsn or CARE if he is a member there also. > >The message is an old one and lists the address and phone number they used before they moved to where ever they are now. > >This is not a scam but a faux paux on their part. > >Another member, who works for a pharmaceutical company is off work and her autoresponder message is sent to who ever posts to Parkinsn and CARE also. > >I have deleted the Michael J. Fox subscription and have set the other account to nomail so you should receive no more erroneous information as the result of your posting to Parkinsn. > >Neither Barbara or myself have ever received a complaint about these episodes. It would seem that if a problem exists, the list management who has the power to fix things, would be notified before wild hypothesis are presented on the list. This scam business has wasted time and bandwidth. > >Let's move on. > >John Cottingham >co-owner Parkinsn thank you john i am not clear on why the responses were limited to posters only as opposed to the entire membership and also as to the reasons for this oddity to start just a few weeks ago but i am sure that we will find out more as this unfolds sharing information about the frontier world of the internet where we are all pioneers and newbies is generous and enlightening to all can you please let us know what's happening in re accessing the archives? thanks for all your work janet janet paterson: an akinetic rigid subtype, albeit perky, parky . pd: 54/41/37 cd: 54/44/43 tel: 613 256 8340 email: [log in to unmask] . snail mail: 375 Country Street, Apt 301, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, K0A 1A0 . a new voice: the nnnewsletter: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/janet313/ . a new voice: the wwweb site: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn