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Re: Input needed

#116
From: Bud Ellis
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:00
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danww@commit.org wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone. I'm working with COMMIT To a Healthier Brant, who is "the
> demonstration site of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy."  I'm looking for some
> input on a new idea we may be implementing.
> 
> Basically, we want to help as many people quit smoking as we possibly can.
> The COMMIT office, located in Brantford, Ontario, has lots of great
> information and great people to help you get through. We also have a
> website, which can be seen at http://www.commit.org/commit/ . (Excuse the
> mess there; I'm updating the site, and it's a disaster area right now. It'll
> be fixed up soon, I promise!)
> 
> We're looking at opening up a chat room where anyone can drop by to chat
> with others about smoking, quitting, or anything else on their minds. It
> would likely be on DALnet on the IRC network, and would be available to
> anyone with an IRC program. Features we are considering include having
> counsellors online as often as possible to give information and support, and
> a permanent "bot" to register users and offer text files of information. Our
> main hope for the room, however, is for it to serve as a meeting place for
> everyone to help others with their cravings, and to get help, and to provide
> that distraction that might get you through those urges.
> 
> I need you to let me know whether this chat room would help you or not. Do
> you think that you'd use it? What other features could we have in the room?
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't get to read the newsgroups too often, so I'd
> appreciate it if you could e-mail your response to me. My address is
> danw@commit.org , and I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks in advance!
> 
> Dan


Hmmmmmmmmm this looks a little suspicious to me, Wonder if it
is going to ask me for some money when I go to the web site 
and/or the chat room.  I will check it out and make sure and 
then talk about it some more....

Bud Ellis
21 months and still a little paranoid about spam.
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From: Bud Ellis <fellis@intnet.net>
Subject: Re: Input needed
Date: 1997/10/16
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