Spam, part 2:

I get alot of chain-mails which you should forward for a noble cause, but I never really trust these mail, because although they are send to you via a good friend; You really never know the person behind it who first started this.

What do you think? is this for real? Is this a serious initiative? Do you know these people? Will it have any effect? Will it matter if you forward this or not? Should I forward this? Would you? Do we really need oxygen?

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Hi All,

The Brazilian congress is now voting on a project that will reduce the Amazon forest to 50% of its size. It will take 1 MINUTE to read this, but PLEASE put your names on the list and forward this on as instructed below.

First, some facts:

The Amazon rainforest is responsible for the generation of 20% of the oxygen that we on this earth breathe, 30% of the world's freshwater is contained within the Amazon basin. 60% of the cancer-fighting drugs used today are derived from plants that can only be found within the Amazon rainforest. The area to be forested is 4 times the size of Portugal and would be mainly used for agriculture and pastures for livestock.

All the wood is to be sold to international markets in the form of wood chips, by large multinational companies.

The truth is that the soil in the Amazon forest is useless without the forest itself. Its quality is very acidic and the region is prone to constant floods. At this time more than 160,000 square kilometres deforested with the same purpose are abandoned and in the process of becoming deserts, meaning that this proposal is in the short-term interests of a few, and in the long term interests of none.

Please copy (cut & paste) the entire text into a new e-mail, put your complete name on the list below, and send to everyone you know.

Blindcopies (BCC) would be nice...

DON'T JUST FORWARD IT, AS IT WILL THEN END UP WITH ROWS AND ROWS of '>'wich discourages people from sending it on.).

If you are the 400th person to sign please send a copy to:

fsaviolo@openlink.com.br

Thank you for your help!