> > I'm about 99% sure that it's a hoax. And if so, it's sickening that someone would use the tragedy in Littleton as the basis for a joke.
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> I think it's sickening anyway. Even if this were well intentioned, which is certainly plausible, it's no excuse to start another junk email campaign, which only serves to annoy. Calls for prayer, sympathy, support, etc, should be conducted in proper, respectful forums. Junk email is junk email, no matter which way you slice it.
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> There's also the additional concern of giving this event exposure in the first place. It is my belief that this only encourages others on the brink to go down the same path. Roger Ebert wrote an excellent article about it, which I can only applaud. The link is given below.

I agree that junk email is junk email. I have friends that love to send me every virus warning, dying child needs AOL disks, cookie recipe, HIV needles in movie theater seats, and LSD on pay phone buttons email that exists. I try my best to debunk these. I usually send them a link to the Urban Legends Home Page. And I never forward them on to anyone else.

I only wish that people would do some research, or just use some common sense, before forwarding these emails out to everyone they know.