Chain letters or not?

["Madeline L. Buchanan" <mlbuchan@WWISP.COM>]

Recently I have been getting messages that I perceive as chain letters.  The
text of the messages are supposed to promote good feelings or self-worth but
at the bottom there is a sentence or two that says to send the message to
five others (or ten others, etc.) so that they can share in these good
feelings.  Or at the bottom of the message might be solicitation to send
greetings to sick people, donate funds, etc.  By the time I get these
messages they have been forwarded five or six times and they are really hard
to read because of the multiple numbers of forwarding marks on each line.

Are these chain letters or not?  When I wrote to the writer of one of them
(a teenage girl) she told me that she sent it to me because she thought it
was a lovely poem and that she didn't believe in chain letters.  However,
since the directions at the bottom were to send it to five more people, I
felt that it was a chain letter.  I don't like these kinds of letters since
they clutter up my mailbox and I have to take the time to delete them.  Has
this been a problem for others?

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Madeline L. Buchanan, Library Media Specialist
W. J. Christian School, Birmingham, Alabama  35206
Phone (205) 838-7666 or 838-7673
Fax (205) 838-7622
mlbuchan@wwisp.com
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