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Article #116Re: Input needed
From: Bud Ellis
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 00:00
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. -- May The Good Lord Take A Liking To You
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 100a20,c3f3fabb238ecefd X-Google-Attributes: gid100a20,public X-Google-Thread: 10ce4b,c3f3fabb238ecefd X-Google-Attributes: gid10ce4b,public From: Bud Ellis <fellis@intnet.net> Subject: Re: Input needed Date: 1997/10/16 Message-ID: <34460292.3081@intnet.net> X-Deja-AN: 280948718 References: <623ndn$fga1@mithras.relay.co.uk> Reply-To: fellis@intnet.net To: danw@commit.org Organization: Making myself healthy again Newsgroups: alt.support.stop-smoking,can.talk.smoking