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Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1996 21:56:08 -0400
To: RebLiv@aol.com, bat@dhp.com, lookingwolf@rand.nidlink.com,
        md3j+@andrew.cmu.edu, micheli@vnet.net, jduff@winkcomm.com,
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From: Chris Morrow <morrowc@his.com>
Subject: Re: My Acceptance Speech
Cc: 72700.3165@compuserve.com
Status: RO

blah...blah...blah...

if only you could here her gloat and rant about her winning this at home...

:)

At 04:06 PM 10/8/96 -0400, RebLiv@aol.com wrote:
>Ladies and Gentlemen and Highly Esteemed Members of the Committee,
>
>Thank you very much for this high honor, but due to personal convictions and
>beliefs I cannot accept this award. While I admit that I have taken an active
>role in Sam's Evil E-mail Contest, I can longer continue to commit these
>atrocieties or condone those who do take part.
>
>It is my conviction that this contest is evil because it encourages quantity
>and strongly discourages quality.  I fondly look back on the days when
>receiving a piece of e-mail from a friend was a special treat.  It was a time
>when people took time and effort to write a thoughful piece of e-mail.  Those
>days are long past us now.  These days hundreds of useless pieces of e-mail
>clutter my mailbox each morning when I get into work.  Every week I spend
>hours reporting spammers to their postmasters.  I find I do not even have
>time to send e-mail to my loving father and mother anymore because I am too
>busy with other e-mail concerns.
>
>If this has not convinced you of the evil that is spawned from this contest,
>let me tell you a personal story.  During the last few hours of September (or
>rather the hours between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. because Sam insists on using a
>time zone that none of us are in, another, but seperate evil that Sam
>promotes via this despicable contest) I found myself in a maddening tizzy.  I
>was going crazy.  I could not think, speak, or digest daily products during
>those few hours.  All I could think of was winning.  I sent countless pieces
>of e-mail of utter crap, including a ballad (to the tune of the Beverly
>Hillbillies) about John Bobbitt's penis.  I insulted my very good friend Sam,
>on serveral occasions I threatened him harm with telephone wires and sticking
>other large objects up his butt.  I WAS A MONSTER!
>
>But now I am cured and I renounce my sins and enourage you all to do the
>same.  Don't waste hours of your precious life sending Sam hundred's of
>pieces of e-mail.  Instead, every day send Sam a quality e-mail describing
>the events of the day and your feelings.  And PLEASE, see how Sam is doing.
> Remember, he has feelings too you know!
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Rebecca L. Livingston
>Former King of the E-mail Sinners
>
>
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