🚀 go-pugleaf

As most of you are probably aware by now, two Americans were taking hostage
by Iraq last week and sentenced to eight years in prison for crossing the
border from Kuwait by mistake.

Recently, the wife of one of the hostages set up a world wide web home page
(http://www.swaninc.com/yellowribbon/) with information on this situation and
requested e-mail from people wishing to show support (kathy@swaninc.com).

As an additional gesture, I would like everyone who reads this post and has
a world wide web home page to replace it with one I have created that contains
a link to her page, a link to your usual page, and directions for how to
participate in this project.  I have designed it so that the links will work
automatically if you follow the directions carefully, so you don't have to
modify the page at all.  (You do have to copy your normal home page to a file
called normal.html in the same directory and copy my file to the old location
of your home page.  Your old home page will be accessible from the temporary
one.)  The page I designed is located at http://www.rpi.edu/~weinss/crisis.html

Please spread word of this project by telling people at your site and
posting to appropriate newsgroups.  So that this doesn't degenerate into 
another make.money.fast, please check first, so it doesn't get posted to the
same group more than twice.  Feel free to post to inappropriate newsgroups, 
too :-) 

Also, please e-mail me to say you are participating so I can send her a list
in a few days of the people that have agreed to take part.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Stephen Weinstein
weinss@rpi.edu

P.S. I do not know the family at all; I found out about her page when it
was mentioned on Time Daily (http://www.swaninc.com/yellowribbon/) and thought
this would be a nice project for the internet to undertake.