From: GitsyTC <GitsyTC@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 02:18:11 EST
To: flowers@iamerica.net, balloon@fooledya.com, simong@vianet.net.au
Subject: Re: Fw: 7year old with Cancer (fwd)

In a message dated 97-12-07 01:51:24 EST, you write:

<< Just to let you know the American Cancer Society E-Mail address is not
 on AOL. Check the real A.C.S. at 
 http://www.cancer.org/frames.html
 & don't be taken in by space wasting items like this, or don't take us
 for fools
 Mike Barr
  >>

You know what Mike...  you did real good in the beginning of your note in
helping Laura by letting her, as well as everyone else, know that the address
in her forward was bogus....   but why so mean with the second half of your
letter?  Was that REALLY necessary??  

I've seen Laura's posts before and they have always been very good ones....
her forwarding the note she did, while, yeah ok maybe it wasn't "Balloon
Related", was done, it seems to me, out of a caring heart.  I dont think
anyone should be flamed for caring.  

I rarely say this...but shame on you!

And on anyone else that may have "flamed" her, rather than just nicely helping
to show or tell her that the note she forwarded wasn't for real and maybe
shouldn't have been posted to a balloon list.

Now to keep MY note somehow balloon related...  Don't most, if not all, of us
make the wonderful creations we do out of balloons to somehow bring color and
joy and smiles into the lives of others?  So tell me then, how is it that
things so hurtful can fly across this list?  As much caring should go into our
posts, to anyone and everyone that has the courage to share on these lists, as
what goes into our balloon sculptures.

Sent with much caring for you all and wishes for the Happiest of Holidays,

Terrie "Gitsy" Basko
http://members.aol.com/gitsytc