This was a response auto-mailed from a petition address: This is a recording. A Brandeis affiliate with good intentions but bad methodology started a chain letter last year. Please do not redistribute it. Please do not write with further questions or comments either to postmaster or to sarabande. The current rate of such messages is around 2000 per day and increasing. Do not reply to this email. For the time being, personal mail to sarabande@brandeis.edu is being delivered, but due to the geometric expansion of Internet chain letters of this kind, this will probably not be true for long. If you know sarabande's other email address, please use that for personal mail. If you wish to learn how to do something productive about the status of women in Afghanistan, please refer to the web sites run by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Feminist Majority, http://www.amnesty.org/ http://www.hrw.org/ and http://www.feminist.org/ respectively. The latter is sponsoring a *real* petition which should be sent *only* via physical mail or fax, where it might have some effect. Virtual signatures are virtually useless at best, and at worst lull people into believing that no real action is needed. The text you received was mostly plagiarized from the real petition (without credit or reference), but is different enough that it can not be acceptted by the original organizers (regardless of how the "signatures" were gathered). For information on why Internet chain letters are never sanctioned by any responsible organization, please refer to: http://athos.rutgers.edu/~watrous/pbs-funding-chain-letter-petition.html http://www.wish.org/craig.htm http://www.nbi.dk/~dickow/stop-chain-letter.txt http://www.cancer.org/chain.html http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa021198.htm http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-run-adverts-00.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-run-spew-07.txt http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html Rich Graves UNet Systems Administrator