I think their class learned something about e-mail, electronics and how
small the world really is, much less the expnential mathematicas.
----- Original Message -----
From: Amy Turner <ltturner@usit.net>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 1999 1:56 PM
Subject: Please don't pass it on!
> Richard Shipman wrote:
>
> > >Hello!
> > >We are in Grade 5 at Bill Arp Elementary School
> > >in Douglasville, GA which is about 20 minutes west of
> > >Atlanta, GA., USA. We have decided to map an email
> > >project. We are curious to see where in the world our
> > >email will travel by internet between the period of
> > >Sept. 21 - Nov. 19, 1999.
>
> Mr. Blevins' fifth grade class learned more about exponential growth than
> geography with this project. A member of another mailing list I'm on
> received this reply when she wrote to the class.
>
> "Help stop the madness...from Mr. Blevins' Class 10/7/99
> We are using the autoresponder feature of our email account to send out a
big
> THANK YOU for helping us with our project. We have received over 22,000
> emails since Sept. 21. The response has been overwhelming and we have
really
> enjoyed it. PLEASE HELP US by not forwarding our message. If you have
> already forwarded it, we would really appreciate it if you would forward
> another message to your friends and let them know that we are soon going
to
> allow our email account to stay closed....please mark your subj line as
> URGENT or something like that."
>
> Amy
>
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