After sending out the email that the former petition at
http://home.uchicago.edu/~dhpicker/petition may have been a hoax, a
colleague said he thinks not. Here follows his understanding:
>From: Chris LeCluyse <lecluyse@mail.utexas.edu>
>Subject: Re: Petition for Peace
>
>I think Charles's German correspondent has misunderstood the
>information on the German hoax site. A link on that site leads to
>the United Nations Information Center, which reports the following:
>
>We have been inundated with emails generating from a petition for
>world peace. While we share your concerns over the recent terrorist
>attacks and your commitment toward the quest for world peace, we did
>not generate this petition and are not the proper recipients for it.
>
>Please remember, the United Nations Secretariat is the implementing
>organ for the actions and programs agreed upon and supported by
>Member States. Therefore, individuals should contact their
>governments and mission to the UN to express concerns and views.
>Thank you.
>
>If those e-mails come from the petition at
>http://home.uchicago.edu/~dhpicker/petition (the U.N. site does not
>specify), the problem would be one of misunderstanding on the
>petition designer's part, not an intentionally malicious hoax
>intended to spread computer viruses.
>
>--Chris
Charles
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